Brit(ish)
On Race, Identity and Belonging
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4.1 • 49 Ratings
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Publisher Description
From Afua Hirsch - co-presenter of Samuel L. Jackson's major BBC TV series Enslaved - 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
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Afua Hirsch has long lived with the feeling that she doesn’t belong in her own country. Born to a Ghanaian-British mother and white Jewish father, the journalist and broadcaster has experienced a Britain which “surveyed me as an alien, questioned me about my background, and expected me to provide explanations”. Here, she presents an immensely thought-provoking portrait of a nation struggling with its identity and history—a land reluctant to confront its attitudes to race, privilege and prejudice. This challenging and necessary study is made all the more compelling by personal anecdotes and a sharp wit that she readily turns on herself.
Customer Reviews
Perfectly perfect
The reader has gone into details affecting modern Britain and has expressed the myths, the expectations and the fate of a new comer into British society and the challenges laying in hidden in open sight. A superb masterpiece in fine writing and an epic story of modern and new Brit-ish. can’t wait for your new book late this year.
So why do these people call me white, Irish Catholic descendants privileged?
This book shatters the myth about white privileged people. I'm working class Irish descendant and I have had so much racism from African/British people who go on about how lucky I was. To be part of a family with no money who hated the last 4 of her kids and my mum even only gave birth to me so my dad would marry her and pay for her other kids.
I'm really fed up with all the feminists that have appeared lately, people like this author who are rich privileged kids who think they got it bad.
Sweetheart we all got it bad, British culture is almost destroyed so why should your culture be any different?