Afropean

Resumen del libro

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 Best Book of 2019 so far '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.

Biografía del autor

Presentador de televisión, escritor y fotógrafo inglés. Es el comisario de la revista en línea Afropean.com, ganadora del premio ENAR (European NetworkAgainst Racism). Ha escrito para la revista Blues x{0026}amp; Soul, Straight No Chaser y The Observer, y ha ganado el premio Decibel Penguin para nuevos escritores. Ha presentado en la MTV, la BBC y la ITV1, y entre sus emisiones figura un documental de la BBC Radio 4 que explora la identidad negra a través de la música de su padre, que fue miembro del grupo de Northern Soul The Fantastics. En la actualidad presenta Open Book para BBC Radio 4.