Josephine Baker’s French exit
The singer-turned-spy is just one of many 20th-century artists who fled American racism and escaped to Europe.
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Gary Younge
Gary Younge is a writer, broadcaster, professor of sociology at the University of Manchester and former Guardian columnist. His books include The Speech: The Story Behind Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s Dream and Another Day in the Death of America.
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Gary Younge: how racism shaped my critical eye
Growing up working-class and black taught me to doubt the official narrative. If I was always lied about, where…
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What does it mean to be British?
America has its Dream, France its Republic – but Britain suffers from a failure of imagination.
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What is “Britishness” – and does it still matter? With Gary Younge, Jeremy Deller and Jason Cowley
Without a formal dream or foundation story, “Britishness” remains elusive.
Andrea Elliott’s story of American poverty is non-fiction writing at its best
Invisible Child follows Dasani Coates and her family in New York as they battle a racist system that is…
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How Nella Larsen’s Passing deconstructed the question of race
Larsen’s 1929 novel, now a Netflix film, illustrates the degree to which race is a construct – without lecturing…
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How Brexit changed us: Covid has proved the futility of nationalist thinking
A referendum could change the terms on which we engaged with the world, but it could not change the fact…
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American civil war
The coming struggle against Trump and Trumpism.
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A fractured United States
Donald Trump’s brazen violations of democratic norms are not new, but a continuation of a political culture built on…
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