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Color me English : migration and belonging before and after 9/11 /
A collection of the author's observations on race, culture, and belonging before and after the September 11 attacks discusses his childhood memories of a Muslim fellow student and his international research into colonial histories.
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In the falling snow
Estranged from his entire family and accused of harassment by a colleague, social worker and race advocate Keith struggles with growing fears about the pointlessness of his work while tracing the events that have led to his present state.
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I Saw Mario Balotelli in the Ghetto
Phillips shares his experience when he saw Mario Balotelli. According to him, Balotelli had traveled on at least a half-dozen occasions to the US, either to play football or simply to take a holiday. As a result he had seen New York many times, and he regarded himself as something of an expert on the subject. \"You know,\" said Balotelli, \"in New York City people never get lost. Over there, they have a system where all the streets and avenues have a number. Moving around is so simple that even a child can find its way from one place to another without any problems.\"
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Nothing Personal: James Baldwin, Richard Avedon, and the Pursuit of Celebrity
This article reflects on literary celebrity through an examination of James Baldwin's artistic career, especially his collaboration with American photographer Richard Avedon in a book entitled Nothing Personal. Baldwin's case is used to analyze a changing publishing world, which has been characterized for the last few years by a form of indifference toward writers of serious literature.
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Another man in the street
In the early sixties, Victor 'Lucky' Johnson arrives in London from St Kitts, with dreams of becoming a journalist. Lucky soon finds work first at an Irish pub in Notting Hill - then as a rent collector for an unscrupulous slum landlord Peter Feldman. Shadowing Lucky from his early struggles in London to the present day, Caryl Phillips paints a striking portrait of a flawed but vividly alive man grappling with the lifelong disillusionments of exile - and the uniquely complicated identity of the Windrush generation.
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Chinua Achebe—It is the Storyteller who makes us see what we are
Phillips describes Chinua Achebe as an extraordinarily charismatic man. Having had the privilege of knowing him a little, Phillips shares about both \"what we are\" because of his example, and more specifically \"who we are\"--or \"who I am\"--because of his personal encounter with Achebe.
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The lost child
A \"story of orphans and outcasts, haunted by the past and fighting to liberate themselves from it. At its center is Monica Johnson--cut off from her parents after falling in love with a foreigner--and her bitter struggle to raise her sons in the shadow of the wild moors of the north of England. Phillips intertwines her modern narrative with the childhood of one of literature's most enigmatic lost boys as he ... conjures young Heathcliff, the antihero of Wuthering Heights, and his ragged existence before Mr. Earnshaw brought him home to his family\"--Dust jacket flap.
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Rude am I in my speech
First generation migrants to Europe, from wherever they may originate, have to learn quickly how to read the new society in order that they might successfully navigate their way forward. Sometimes this involves learning when to remain quiet, and somewhat compliant, and not risk causing offence. Here, Phillips shares the adjustment her father did when they immigrated.
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