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Afropean : notes from black Europe

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  • Running Time: 11:31 hrs
    Narrator: Johny Pitts
    Publisher:
    Penguin, 2019
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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    Running Time: 11:31 hrs
    Narrator: Johny Pitts
    Publisher:
    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2022
    Note: This book was produced with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component

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  • Author: Pitts, Johny
    Contributor: Pitts, Johny
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
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    2019
    Summary:

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Afropean written and read by Johny Pitts. In the face of growing racial discrimination, anti-immigrant sentiment and the spectre of terrorism looming large over an economically stricken continent, Afropean is an on-the-ground documentary of areas where Europeans of African descent are juggling their multiple allegiances and forging new identities: too indelibly woven into Europe to identify with Africa and yet struggling with outdated ideas of what it means to be European. Afropean will plot 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. The author 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.

    Original Publisher: London, Penguin
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9780241390221