The Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the uncomfortable truth about race in Britain today - and calls for urgent change
Afua Hirsch is a writer, journalist and broadcaster. She is a columnist for the Guardian, and appears regularly on the BBC, Sky News and CNN. Brit(ish) is her first book and was awarded a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Prize for Non-Fiction.
Brit(ish) is a wonderful, important, courageous book,
and it could not be more timely: a vital and necessary point of
reference for our troubled age in a country that seems to have lost
its bearings. It's about identity and belonging in 21st-century
Britain: intimate and troubling; forensic but warm, funny and
wise. -- Philippe Sands
Brit(ish) brings together a thoughtful, intelligent,
accessible, informative investigation on Britain as a nation
not only in the midst of an identity crisis but in denial of what
it has been and still is. -- Dolly Alderton
Highly personal and yet instantly universal, this is a book that
millions will instantly relate to. Hirsch places her own
lifelong search for identity and a sense of Britishness against the
backdrop of our national identity crisis. Part historical
exploration, part journalistic expose of racism and class
disadvantage in modern Britain, this is a book searching for
answers to some very big questions. Delving behind words like
'prejudice', 'disadvantage', 'structural-racism' Hirsch unpacks the
real world impact of these forces and on the lives of real people.
Written with passion not anger, insight rather than resentment, on
the issues of race, identity and the multiple meanings of
Britishness this is the book for our divided and
dangerous times. -- David Olusoga
Memoir, social analysis and an incisively argued challenge to
unconscious biases: this is a truly stunning book on racial
identity by a remarkable woman. -- Helena Kennedy
[A] bracing and brilliant exploration of national identity
... Through her often intensely personal investigations, she
exposes the everyday racism that plagues British society, caused by
our awkward, troubled relationship to our history, arguing that
liberal attempts to be colour-blind have caused more problems than
they have solved. A book everyone should read: especially comfy,
white, middle-class liberals. -- Caroline Sanderson * The
Bookseller, Editor's Choice *
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