Afropean : notes from Black Europe
Pitts, Johny2020
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'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.
Afropean : notes from Black Europe / Johny Pitts.
[London], UK : Penguin Books, 2020.
391 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Originally published: 2019.
Winner of the 2020 Jhalak Prize for black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) writers
9780141987286
305.89604
English
372104
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Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Society and Beliefs | 305.89604 PIT | Available |