Olusoga black and british5/19/2023 The book's strengths are in its jaw-dropping true stories. Large chronological gaps exist, frustratingly for the reader, because black voices have simply not been systematically recorded throughout history. Starting from Roman times, the book is a compelling chronicle of the lives of black Tudors, Georgians, Victorians, and soldiers in the first and second world wars. He argues that "the denial and avowal of black British history, even in the face of mounting documentary and archeological evidence, is not just a consequence of racism but a feature of racism." The thesis running throughout the book is that black Britons have been systematically excluded from British history. The book accompanies a superb BBC Two documentary, which is much more crowd-pleasing in tone. The refrain David heard was the same that I heard: "Go back to where you came from." "Black and British" is a detailed rebuttal of the racist lie that black people do not belong in Britain. Growing up in Britain in the 1970s, I was subjected to the same type of racism as this book's author, David Olusoga.
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