Sugar And Slate Av Charlotte Williams

<p><b>''In its exploration of geographical, racial and cultural dislocation, <i>Sugar and Slate</i> is in the finest tradition of work to have emerged from the black diaspora in recent times'' Gary Younge, <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br><b>A powerful, radiant memoir from writer Charlotte Williams exploring the intertwined history of Wales, Africa and the Caribbean</b><br><br>The daughter of a white Welsh-speaking mother and a Black father from Guyana, Charlotte Williams'' childhood world was one of mixed messages, dominated by the feeling that ''somehow to be half Welsh and half Afro-Caribbean was always to be half of something but never quite anything whole at all''.<br><br><i>Sugar and Slate</i> tells the fascinating story of her journey of self-discovery, toing and froing between the small north Wales town where she grew up, Africa and the Caribbean. Blending memoir with historical research, <i>Sugar and Slate</i> delves deep into Black Welsh history, revealing the nation as home to one of the first interracial marriages in Britain in 1768, and a site of Britain''s first major race riots in 1919.<br><br>Powerful, lyrical and intimate, Williams'' experience casts light on Wales and Welshness, illuminating what it is to be racially marginalized within a community, which is itself marginalized within Britain, and offering a unique insight into the complex Black history of Wales.<br><br><b>A title in the Black Britain: Writing Back series - selected by Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo, this series rediscovers and celebrates pioneering books depicting black Britain that remap the nation.</b></p>