African Europeans : an untold history
Otele, Olivette2021
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A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned historian Olivette Otele debunks this and uncovers a long history of Europeans of African descent. From the third century, when the Egyptian Saint Maurice became the leader of a Roman legion, all the way up to the present, Otele explores encounters between those defined as "Africans" and those called "Europeans." She gives equal attention to the most prominent figures&;like Alessandro de Medici, the first duke of Florence thought to have been born to a free African woman in a Roman village&;and the untold stories&;like the lives of dual-heritage families in Europe's coastal trading towns. African Europeans is a landmark celebration of this integral, vibrantly complex slice of European history, and will redefine the field for years to come.
African Europeans : an untold history / Olivette Otele.
Otele, Olivette, author
New York : Basic Books, 2021.©2021
x, 291 pages ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-268) and index.
97815416196789781541619678
305.89604305.896
English
381668
Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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Sandringham Library | Adult Non Fiction - Society and Beliefs | 305.896 OTE | Available |