England's Other Countrymen: Black Tudor Society by Dr Onyeka Nubia
Our ability to comprehend the past has been hampered by prejudice within academia. As a result Early modern England: the Tudor and Stuart periods, are blamed for being the incubators of modern racism.
There is an idea that ‘things’ are getting better. Ancillary to this is a conceit that the past is somewhat strange, and the source for most of our ills such as racism and xenophobia. We are told that somewhere in history, racist attitudes began, and that is why people have them now. In other words, our prejudices are a legacy of history.
This book challenges the trajectory of this claim. It is based on records written by English people and other Europeans at the time (primary records).
The claims made in this book will stimulate debates on issues of difference, identity, theology and race.
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March 2019
Zed books / Bloomsbury
It is hoped that readers will continue to demystify the Africans of early modern England and countervail any post-colonial praxis.
Through examining records intertextually Africans can be appreciated without being automatically othered. They then emerge as more then strangers — but neighbours that lived, — and were not just present in their neighbourhoods.
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