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As early as the third century, St Maurice-an Egyptian-became leader
of the legendary Roman Theban Legion. Ever since, there have been
richly varied encounters between those defined as 'Africans' and
those called 'Europeans'. Yet Africans and African Europeans are
still widely believed to be only a recent presence in Europe.
Olivette Otele traces a long African European heritage through the
lives of individuals both ordinary and extraordinary. She uncovers
a forgotten past, from Emperor Septimius Severus, to enslaved
Africans living in Europe during the Renaissance, and all the way
to present-day migrants moving to Europe's cities. By exploring a
history that has been long overlooked, she sheds light on questions
very much alive today-on racism, identity, citizenship, power and
resilience. 'African Europeans' is a landmark account of a crucial
thread in Europe's complex history. A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A
History Today Book of the Year, 2020 A Waterstones Best Book of
2020
As the world negotiates immense loss and questions of how to
memorialize, the contributions in this volume evaluate the role of
culture as a means to promote reconciliation, either between
formerly warring parties, perpetrators and survivors, governments
and communities, or within the self. Post-Conflict Memorialization:
Missing Memorials, Absent Bodies reflects on a distinct aspect of
mourning work: the possibility to move towards recovery, while in a
period of grief, waiting, silence, or erasure. Drawing on
ethnographic data and archival material from Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Argentina, Palestine, Israel, Wales, Peru, Colombia, Hungary,
Chile, Pakistan, and India, the authors analyze how memorialization
and commemoration is practiced by communities who have experienced
trauma and violence, while in the absence of memorials, mutual
acknowledgement, and the bodies of the missing. This timely volume
will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students,
postdoctoral researchers, and scholars with an interest in memory
studies, sociology, history, politics, conflict, and peace studies
As early as the third century, St Maurice-an Egyptian-became leader
of the legendary Roman Theban Legion. Ever since, there have been
richly varied encounters between those defined as 'Africans' and
those called 'Europeans'. Yet Africans and African Europeans are
still widely believed to be only a recent presence in Europe.
Olivette Otele traces a long African European heritage through the
lives of individuals both ordinary and extraordinary. She uncovers
a forgotten past, from Emperor Septimius Severus, to enslaved
Africans living in Europe during the Renaissance, and all the way
to present-day migrants moving to Europe's cities. By exploring a
history that has been long overlooked, she sheds light on questions
very much alive today-on racism, identity, citizenship, power and
resilience. African Europeans is a landmark account of a crucial
thread in Europe's complex history.
As the world negotiates immense loss and questions of how to
memorialize, the contributions in this volume evaluate the role of
culture as a means to promote reconciliation, either between
formerly warring parties, perpetrators and survivors, governments
and communities, or within the self. Post-Conflict Memorialization:
Missing Memorials, Absent Bodies reflects on a distinct aspect of
mourning work: the possibility to move towards recovery, while in a
period of grief, waiting, silence, or erasure. Drawing on
ethnographic data and archival material from Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Argentina, Palestine, Israel, Wales, Peru, Colombia, Hungary,
Chile, Pakistan, and India, the authors analyze how memorialization
and commemoration is practiced by communities who have experienced
trauma and violence, while in the absence of memorials, mutual
acknowledgement, and the bodies of the missing. This timely volume
will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students,
postdoctoral researchers, and scholars with an interest in memory
studies, sociology, history, politics, conflict, and peace studies
A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A History Today Book of the Year, 2020
Renowned historian Olivette Otele uncovers the untold history of
Europeans of African descent, from Saint Maurice who became the
leader of a Roman legion and Renaissance scholar Juan Latino, to
abolitionist Mary Prince and the activist, scholars and grime
artists of the present day. Tracing African European heritage
through the vibrant, complex, and often brutal experiences of
individuals both ordinary and extraordinary, she sheds new light
not only on the past but also on questions very much alive today -
about racism, identity, citizenship, power and resilience. African
Europeans is a landmark celebration of this integral, vibrantly
complex slice of European history, and will redefine the field for
years to come.
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