-
Black Britain Writing Back
SOCIAL SCIENCE
272 Pages, 5.06 x 7.81
Formats: Trade Paper
Trade Paper, $19.95 (US $19.95)
Publication Date: September 2022
ISBN 9780241559741
Rights: US
Penguin Random House UK (Sep 2022)
Penguin
"Britons camouflages its radical ideas with jokes, puns, satire, burlesque, and lampoon. It describes a walk around London with Merriman-Labor acting as a guide to a newly arrived African friend. As they pass landmarks, observe people, and discuss British manners, the city’s famous clocks toll, marking the passing day. . . . By acting as an ethnographic observer, Merriman-Labor asserts the right of being the observer, not the observed. In Britons, the white Europeans are the exotic others who need to be explained. . . . His clever, irreverent, joyful voice rings through Britons Through Negro Spectacles, reminding us that for those willing to listen, voices from the margins have important things to teach us." —Oxford University Press Blog