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CONTENTS Cover About the Book About the Author Dedication Title Page Epigraph Introduction: Identity Lessons 1 Where Are You From? 2 Origins 3 Bodies 4 Heritage 5 Places 6 Class 7 The New Black 8. The Door of No Return Notes Acknowledgements Playlist Credits Index Vintage Story Page Vintage Family Page Copyright ABOUT THE BOOK The Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the uncomfortable truth about race and identity in Britain today You’re British. Your parents are British. Your partner, your children and most of your friends are British. So why do people keep asking where you’re from? We are a nation in denial about our imperial past and the racism that plagues our present. Brit(ish) is Afua Hirsch’s personal and provocative exploration of how this came to be – and an urgent call for change. ‘The book for our divided and dangerous times’ David Olusoga ABOUT THE AUTHOR Afua Hirsch is a writer, journalist and broadcaster. She is a columnist for the Guardian, and appears regularly on the BBC, Sky News and CNN. Brit(ish) is her first book and was awarded a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Prize for Non-Fiction. For my grandparents, Paul Kofi, Ophelia Joyce, John and Ann, whose stories have inspired mine. In memory of Alexander, whom we called King, gone too soon. To Naya Ketawa. This is for you. AFUA HIRSCH Brit(ish) On Race, Identity and Belonging The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. – Maya Angelou, All God’s Children Need Travelling Shoes INTRODUCTION: IDENTITY LESSONS British sheet music cover, c. 1850. Minstrels were a popular form of entertainment in Victorian music halls, and were broadcast on the BBC until the 1970s. The world is wrong. You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it’s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. – Claudia Rankine, Citizen
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