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2018 book by Afua Hirsch
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging is a 2018 book by the journalist Afua Hirsch. The book is part-memoir and discusses black history, culture and politics in the context of Britain, Senegal and Ghana.
It received mixed critical reception.
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Synopsis
Hirsch grew up in Wimbledon, London, the daughter of a white British father and a black Ghanaian mother who had emigrated to Britain. Hirsch describes them as working hard to provide her with a middle-class upbringing.
She was privately educated. Her classmates and the characters she saw in fiction were predominantly white.
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Hirsch writes that though people around her claimed not to notice race, she was treated differently because of her race, such as security guards at shops scrutinising her more, and thus was taught that "being black is bad". Hirsch attended the University of Oxford, where she felt alien because of her race.
As a young adult, she worked in Senegal. She became a barri