'In its exploration of geographical, racial and cultural
dislocation, Sugar and Slate is in the finest tradition of work to
have emerged from the black diaspora in recent times' Gary Younge,
Guardian A powerful, radiant memoir from Charlotte Williams
exploring the intertwined history of Wales, Africa and the
Caribbean The daughter of a white Welsh-speaking mother and a Black
father from Guyana, Charlotte Williams' childhood world was one of
mixed messages, dominated by the feeling that 'somehow to be half
Welsh and half Afro-Caribbean was always to be half of something
but never quite anything whole at all'. Sugar and Slate tells the
fascinating story of her journey of self-discovery, toing and
froing between the small north Wales town where she grew up, Africa
and the Caribbean. Blending memoir with historical research, Sugar
and Slate delves deep into Black Welsh history, revealing the
nation as home to one of the first interracial marriages in Britain
in 1768, and a site of Britain's first major race riots in 1919.
Powerful, lyrical and intimate, Williams' experience casts light on
Wales and Welshness, illuminating what it is to be racially
marginalized within a community, which is itself marginalized
within Britain, and offering a unique insight into the complex
Black history of Wales. A title in the Black Britain: Writing Back
series - selected by Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine
Evaristo, this series rediscovers and celebrates pioneering books
depicting black Britain that remap the nation.
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