The Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the uncomfortable truth about race in Britain today - and calls for urgent change
Afua Hirsch is a writer, filmmaker, and journalist. She is the author of Brit(ish), the Sunday Times bestselling book that explores Britishness, identity and belonging, for which she was awarded the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Prize for Non-Fiction. She co-presented Enslaved, a 6-part series about the transatlantic slave trade with Samuel L Jackson. She is also the presenter of the Audible podcast series We Need To Talk About the British Empire, and Africa Rising, an ongoing flagship series about art and culture for the BBC, through the production company she founded, Born in Me Productions. She is a longtime columnist for the Guardian and is a professor of journalism at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
Brit(ish) is a wonderful, important, courageous book, and it could
not be more timely: a vital and necessary point of reference for
our troubled age in a country that seems to have lost its bearings.
It’s about identity and belonging in 21st-century Britain: intimate
and troubling; forensic but warm, funny and wise.
*Philippe Sands*
Brit(ish) brings together a thoughtful, intelligent, accessible,
informative investigation on Britain as a nation not only in the
midst of an identity crisis but in denial of what it has been and
still is.
*Dolly Alderton*
Memoir, social analysis and an incisively argued challenge to
unconscious biases: this is a truly stunning book on racial
identity by a remarkable woman.
*Helena Kennedy*
[A] bracing and brilliant exploration of national identity …
Through her often intensely personal investigations, she exposes
the everyday racism that plagues British society, caused by our
awkward, troubled relationship to our history, arguing that liberal
attempts to be colour-blind have caused more problems than they
have solved. A book everyone should read: especially comfy, white,
middle-class liberals.
*The Bookseller, Editor's Choice*
This is less a polemic about the past than an attempt to illuminate
the problems of the present. Hirsch is exacting in her observations
of how this history manifests itself today... This is a fierce,
thought-provoking and fervent take on the most urgent questions
facing us today.
*Financial Times*
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