Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter

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Dispatches from the Diaspora brings together the vibrant journalism of one of the leading Black voices spanning the Atlantic, providing a must-read for anyone interested in the way we understand contemporary issues of race and identity. Dispatches from the Diaspora is a collection of extraordinary range that exemplifies Younge's gift to his readers over the years – a journalism that is sober and clear eyed, but always undergirded by optimism and faith in humanity. He is the author of five books, including Another Day in the Death of America (shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Jhalak Prize). Dispatches from the Diaspora is an unrivalled body of work from a unique perspective that takes you to the frontlines and compels you to engage and to imagine a world in which you might thrive, for which there is no evidence.

This advice, which came from older white journalists (pretty much the only older journalists available when I started out), was rarely malicious. Formerly a columnist and an editor-at-large at the Guardian , he is an editorial board member of the Nation magazine and a Type Media fellow.

Gary Younge has been there on the frontline throughout this time, translating history into words fused with truth, power and illumination. The past 30 years saw the end of apartheid, the election of Barack Obama and the foundation of the Black Lives Matter movement. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, the Financial Times, GQ, Granta, and beyond. From Nobel Laureates Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter to theatre greats Tom Stoppard and Alan Bennett to rising stars Polly Stenham and Florian Zeller, Faber Drama presents the very best theatre has to offer.

Gary Younge has borne witness to some of the most critical events in the black diaspora in recent times with an honest and humane eye. Formerly a columnist and an editor-at-large at the Guardian, he is an editorial board member of the Nation magazine and a Type Media fellow. No single journalist has done more to shape my understanding of Black diaspora's experiences in the world today - Gary Younge's is not a first draft of history, but storytelling that will survive us all. A powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and Black life and death from one of the nation's leading political voices.These interviews and reports are living history and we owe Younge an incredible debt for capturing these moments. Gary has made several radio and television documentaries on subjects ranging from the tea party to hip hop culture. Dispatches from the Diaspora is an unrivalled body of work from a unique perspective that takes you to the frontlines and compels you to engage and to 'imagine a world in which you might thrive, for which there is no evidence. This book draws on my journalism from or about the African diaspora, including the Caribbean, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone and Europe, as well as Britain and the US.

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A powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and black life and death from one of the nation's leading political voices. A fear of being ‘pigeon-holed’ is one of the most common crippling anxieties of any minority in any profession. Gary's always impressive writing encompasses the voices of so many people who would otherwise go completely unheard.

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