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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS ‘Beautiful, haunting,
thought-provoking … A book I will return to again and again’
Bernardine Evaristo A gorgeously produced, hugely original
examination of Black Britishness in the 21st century What is Black
Britain? In 2021, award-winning poet Roger Robinson and acclaimed
photographer Johny Pitts rented a red Mini Cooper and decided to
follow the coast clockwise in search of an answer to this question.
Leaving London, they followed the River Thames east towards
Tilbury, where the Empire Windrush docked in 1948. Too often, that
is where the history told about Black Britain begins and ends –
but Robinson and Pitts continued out of London, following the coast
clockwise through Margate to Land’s End, Bristol to Blackpool,
Glasgow to John O’Groats and Scarborough to Southend on Sea.
Here, the authors found not only Black British culture long
overlooked in official narratives of Britain, but also the history
of Empire and transatlantic slavery to which every Briton is
tethered. Home Is Not a Place is the spectacular result of the
journey they documented: a free-form composition of photography,
poetry and essays that offers a book-length reflection upon Black
Britishness – its complexity, strength and resilience – at the
start of a new decade. ‘Masterful … A thing of brilliance’
Caleb Azumah Nelson, author of Open Water
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Not Quite Right For Us (Paperback)
Sharmilla Beezmohun; Foreword by Linton Kwesi Johnson; Xiaolu Guo, Kerry Hudson, Jay Bernard, …
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Defiant, humorous, empathetic and insightful, 'Not Quite Right For
Us' pierces through the hierarchical mechanics of class, race,
gender. A celebration of outsiderness and an ode to otherness, 'Not
Quite Right For Us' is a singular collection of stories, essays and
poems by a dynamic mix of established and surging voices alike,
edited by Sharmilla Beezmohun and including Linton Kwesi Johnson,
Aminatta Forna, Xiaolu Guo, Johny Pitts, Rishi Dastidar, Tim Wells
and Rafeef Ziadah. This remarkable anthology marks the tenth
anniversary of the live-literature organisation co-founded by
Sharmilla, Speaking Volumes. Part cri du coeur, part warning shot,
part affirmation, this is the book we need now.
Winner of the Jhalak Prize Winner of the Bread & Roses Award
for Radical Publishing 'A revelation' Owen Jones 'Afropean seizes
the blur of contradictions that have obscured Europe's relationship
with blackness and paints it into something new, confident and
lyrical' Afua Hirsch A Guardian, New Statesman and BBC History
Magazine Best Book of 2019 'Afropean. Here was a space where
blackness was taking part in shaping European identity ... A
continent of Algerian flea markets, Surinamese shamanism, German
Reggae and Moorish castles. Yes, all this was part of Europe too
... With my brown skin and my British passport - still a ticket
into mainland Europe at the time of writing - I set out in search
of the Afropeans, on a cold October morning.' Afropean is an
on-the-ground documentary of areas where Europeans of African
descent are juggling their multiple allegiances and forging new
identities. Here is an alternative map of the continent, taking the
reader to places like Cova Da Moura, the Cape Verdean shantytown on
the outskirts of Lisbon with its own underground economy, and
Rinkeby, the area of Stockholm that is eighty per cent Muslim.
Johny Pitts visits the former Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow,
where West African students are still making the most of Cold War
ties with the USSR, and Clichy Sous Bois in Paris, which gave birth
to the 2005 riots, all the while presenting Afropeans as lead
actors in their own story.
Look Again is a new series of short books from Tate Publishing,
opening up the conversation about British art over the last 500
years, and exploring what art has to tell us about our lives today.
Written by leading voices from the worlds of literature, art and
culture, each book sheds new light on some of the most well-known,
best-loved and thought-provoking artworks in the national
collection, and asks us to look again. Author, photographer and
broadcaster Johny Pitts examines the notion of 'visibility' in
Tate's galleries, asking who gets to be seen - and why. The
well-known faces of our best-loved paintings hang visible on the
walls of Tate - but look beyond and you will also see the
'invisible' figures in the background whose stories have been
obscured by history, hidden in plain sight. And yet, these stories
belong to those on whom the galleries depend the most: standing
guard in the corners, serving in our cafes and cleaning in the
early mornings. Featuring original sketches by Tate staff that
respond to works from Britain's national collection of art, Look
Again: Visibility asks us to bear witness to figures who have long
been overlooked by a system that profits from their labour while
simultaneously dismissing it as 'unskilled' - and suggests that
perhaps the way to reach a fuller understanding of our history is
to start looking at it through new eyes.
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