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In Search of Black History with Bonnie Greer
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Dec 19 201940 minsFailed to add items
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By Bonnie Greer
When I recorded the first volume of my autobiography, A Parallel Life for Audible last year it was an emotional experience - to feel, from a distance, my own continued and ongoing fight against erasure of memory and therefore of truth. Black History Month is not just about history, it's about how history creates the now. Let's not erase or try to hide our history, let's talk about it. All of it: the good; the bad; the ambiguous; the transcendent. My history is the History of Africa, the History of Europe, the History of America and the History of Britain. I am all of these things. I am on both sides of every story.
Four things have helped me to have a kind of reclamation within myself (although it is an ongoing process): books; art; music; and the two million years of human history that is the British Museum. These things - and others - allow me to hold multiple perspectives; which is the only way, I have found, of being myself. Of being a Black Woman. Of being a Human Being.
Black and British
Black British history has been whitewashed,
Olusoga reminded us in his 2016 BBC series. This listen is an important journey into the histories of Britons with black skin and white skin, how they come together and how they come apart. In this year of BLM and Brexit we ask again and again, what is it to be 'British' and what is it be 'Black'.
Black Tudors
'Race' is not a scientific category per se. It is a social construct and real because of that. 'Race' was rewritten in order to condone, accommodate and promote the transatlantic slave trade. But people of African descent often transcended this...went further. People of African descent have always been a part of the European story. This audiobook shows you how integral they were.
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Walter Rodney was a brilliant Guyanese historian, academic and activist. He was assassinated in 1980. A scholar and teacher at SOAS, University of London, University of the West Indies, and University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, his work looks at the intricate relationship between Europe and Africa, and how each made each other what they are today. This edition was published in 2018 with a foreword by Angela Davis, explaining how Walter Rodney's Caribbean, African, European perspective can give us a framework to discuss the post-colonial world today. The work of Walter Rodney is key to what is called postcolonial studies.
The Famished Road
Ben Okri's beautiful Booker Prize-winning novel reminds us that any difficult history can only be confronted when the transformative power of wonder is felt in the same breath as the pain of loss. A masterpiece informed by Ben Okri’s own experiences of England and Nigeria.
Invisible Man
As seen in the Barak Obama biopic Barry, this book is like a piece of music. Let go and listen to a jazz riff in words, about a Black man who lives underground, who gets scapegoated, becomes the fall guy, finds purpose and disillusionment in a time and culture in some ways different and in some ways similar to our own. This book will teach you how to listen to books with a different kind of ear.
Girl, Woman, Other
As well as Black History Month, October is home to Hate Crime Awareness week. Bernadine Evaristo's brilliant Booker Prize-winner, in addition to being a work of art, explores the intersectionality of race, gender, age and sexuality to help us think about how the issues which underlie BLM affect us all in very personal ways, no matter the colour of our skin.
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- Ruby
- 05-12-20
very interesting and informative reading.
I liked the book, it was a real eye opener for me. my question is what happened in the North of Africa before the trans Atlantic slave trade? I wanted to hear about.
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- Corsaire
- 05-03-20
Brilliant, instructive, illuminating
A perfectly paced narrative history which tells us much about the black histories we didn't know, and expands on the black history some of us thought we did.
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-06-20
Absolutely engaging Black Histoy storytelling
Such a compelling journey through black history and I have learnt so much! I wish there was a volume 2!
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- Nick
- 18-03-20
Enlightening history. From a National Treasure.
It can be uncomfortable to face a narrative that does not conform to what you may have been taught. But it need not be.
This is a story for everyone. Regardless of whatever identity you want to use.
What Lady Greer is communicating is a story of humanity, and it's complexity.
And as the tagline suggests, nothing is ever black or white.
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- Mae
- 19-06-20
Captivating performance, incredible stories
I loved every moment of 'In Search of Black History'. Every story transported me, moved me and taught me. Already looking forward to listening again.
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- Joanna JJ
- 09-02-20
The journey to
Wow. What a journey. Every single episode is a brilliant way of showing Black History. So many fascinating stories, people. I will learn more because Bonnie Greer is just giving you a taste of the history and encourage to think in different way and to look for this what for many of us is not visible because of the way we were raised. Listen and learn.
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- Isobel Huntly
- 13-09-20
Ignorance is no ecxcuse
I felt all emotions listening to Bonnie Greer series
I am ashamed to say I didn't know much about black history but I know that history generally is written by the victors and also by the oppressors
It is a story told with dignity and passion.
Which for me invoked the spirit of Dr Martin Luther King Junior whom I knew about and the life of Pauli Murray whom sadly I knew nothing about.
I will also look at museums in a different light, no longer as a neutral institution and be more critical of the appropriation of artefacts/ culture from other countries
Thank you for this series
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-01-20
An Eye Opener
It has given me so much information, about my people. We have such a rich heritage and legacy. Our people should embrace the truth about our ancestors and carry on its growth, which will enrich and heal us.
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- Elizabeth
- 13-02-20
Wonderful
Fantastic series with important stories, narrated with a soothing voice. This is history we should all know. Highly recommended.
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- NJ
- 01-04-20
One of the best documentaries I've ever heard
I was lucky enough to grow up in a really multicultural town and moved my family back there when my first baby was born so that they can have similar experiences and make friends from all walks of life. As a third generation Polish immigrant, I enjoy historical documentaries on many subjects and this was no exception.
Bonnie Greer has achieved something in this series that I've never been aware of in any other. She told a fascinating story that she managed to not only make personal, but also shared. Usually, the shared history of the white Europeans and black Africans is one where the whites are the oppressors. Of course this was covered but it wasn't the _only_ part of the shared history.
It was beautifully balanced and Ms Greer gently shared with us the horrors and joys of Black History. She had such great enthusiasm for the story, how it shapes us and how it must continue to shape our futures.
I really enjoyed the BBC documentary 'A History of Black Britain' and there were some shared elements but told in a different way so I didn't feel like I was hearing the same information.
Thank you for a superb series!
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