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A revealing, honest and often comic coming-of-age story about growing up in 1970s England on the boundaries of race. Kamal Ahmed's childhood was very 'British' in every way except for the fact that he was brown. Half English, half Sudanese, he was raised in 1970s London at a time when being mixed-race meant being told to go home, even when you were born just down the road. The Life and Times of a Very British Man makes the case for a new conversation about race in England through personal stories, political analysis and passionate belief in the ultimate good of this country. Kamal recounts the extraordinary circumstances that led to his father, a proud Sudanese scientist, marrying his mother, a grammar-school educated white woman from Yorkshire, and the first person he met off the plane. It was a time when wearing a miniskirt was an act of social rebellion, when 'niggers' and 'coloureds' still formed part of the national lexicon and when Enoch Powell's infamous 'Rivers of Blood' speech cast a shadow over the childhood of a brown schoolboy in Ealing. Heartfelt, witty and profound, this is a modern state-of-the-nation from a man who adopted the name Neil growing up (it was better t

Author

Ahmed, Kamal (Economics editor), author

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781408889152

Subjects

Gender Studies, Social_sciences