Europe

Black and British: A Forgotten History (2016)

Black and British: A Forgotten History (2016)

Book review by Marina Davis Olusoga unmasks the ignorance behind the narrative that England was homogeneously white until the mid 1900s when many immigrants from its former territories immigrated to England for the economic prospects created by post-war...

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Black Tudors: The Untold Story (2017)

Black Tudors: The Untold Story (2017)

This book explains Tudor history through the lives of black people in Tudor England. Through surviving documentation of the ten people in the book, the text focuses on placing them within the broader history and context of Tudor culture. ‘Black Tudors’ refers to any...

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A History of Pan-African Revolt (1938 & 1969)

A History of Pan-African Revolt (1938 & 1969)

It is hard to put this book into just one category, but let's go with Caribbean and Europe because the historian C.L.R. James was originally from Trinidad and wrote this book while being an academician in England. This book is one of the Marxist activist's seminal...

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