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This is an incredibly insightful and informative look into empire, racism, xenophobia, and the treatment of people of colour in UK. Afua Hirsch chronicles her experiences at Oxford University as one of very few women of colour, and the way those experiences shaped her desire to leave the UK and move to Senegal. Living in the UK and attending Oxford, she found her identity as a British person undermined by white people, but when she moved to Senegal, searching for belonging and a more concrete sense of identity, she felt that she didn't fit in there either.
Hirsch looks back at the UK's colonial history and uses this to inform her analysis of present day attitudes towards people of colour and the persisting idea that white people 'don't see race'. This book is astute, expansive, and very well written and should be a must-read for all white people living in the UK.
Content warnings for discussions of racism, xenophobia, and misogyny, attempted rape, violence, break ins, potential attempted kidnapping.
Hirsch looks back at the UK's colonial history and uses this to inform her analysis of present day attitudes towards people of colour and the persisting idea that white people 'don't see race'. This book is astute, expansive, and very well written and should be a must-read for all white people living in the UK.
Content warnings for discussions of racism, xenophobia, and misogyny, attempted rape, violence, break ins, potential attempted kidnapping.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Racism, Xenophobia, Misogyny, and Violence
Additional content warnings for break ins, attempted rape, possible attempt at kidnapping.
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