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Olivette Otele’s African Europeans: An Untold History begins in 23 BC and ends in the present day, spanning two continents, from Sweden to Senegal, from Portugal to St Petersburg. Inevitably such ambitious scope requires a focus. Otele, who became the UK’s first female Black history professor in 2018, covers the terrain by orienting her study around extraordinary figures from each period. Beginning in the Roman era, Otele explores how officials such as Marcus Cornelius Fronto and Emperor Septimius Severus navigated their African and Roman identities. Staying in the Mediterranean, a discussion of 16th-century Florence and Spain focuses on the lives of the Duke of Florence, Alessandro de’ Medici and the Spaniard Juan Latino, a Latin scholar and poet who had been enslaved for the first few decades of his life. Otele then moves north to the 17th-century Dutch Republic. As the Dutch invested in global trade, the country’s involvement in Atlantic slavery grew. Like La ....
, Olivette Otele offers a new history that celebrates the lives of African Europeans through tracing a long African European heritage, drawing connections across time and space and debunking persistent myths. This is a thrilling and informative read, writes Michelle M. Wright , and will prove an excellent introduction for both scholars and lay readers who are relatively new to exploring the histories of this ancient, diverse and growing presence. African Europeans: An Untold History. Olivette Otele. Hurst Publishers. 2020. Professor Olivette Otele’s African Europeans: An Untold History joins a rather rarified collection of books on Blackness in Europe. One of the earliest I know of, Guyanese-born Professor Ivan Van Sertima’s 1985 ....
the bernard and audrey rapport foundation. committed to building a more just and peaceful world. the betsy and jessie fink foundation. barbara g fleischman and our corporate sponsor, mutual of america. welcome. here comes the fourth of july, number 236 since the continental congress approved the declaration of independence and riders on horseback rushed it to the far corners of the thirteen new united states where it was read aloud to cheering crowds. these days our celebration of the fourth brings a welcome round of barbecue, camaraderie with friends and family, fireworks, flags, and unbeatable prices at the mall. but perhaps, too, we will remember the declaration of independence itself, the product of what john adams called thomas jefferson s happy talent for composition. take some time this week to read alone to yourself or aloud with others, and tell me the words aren t still capable of setting the mind ablaze. the founders surely knew that when they let these ....
the bernard and audrey rapport foundation. committed to building a more just and peaceful world. the betsy and jessie fink foundation. barbara g fleischman and our corporate sponsor, mutual of america. welcome. here comes the fourth of july, number 236 since the continental congress approved the declaration of independence and riders on horseback rushed it to the far corners of the thirteen new united states where it was read aloud to cheering crowds. these days our celebration of the fourth brings a welcome round of barbecue, camaraderie with friends and family, fireworks, flags, and unbeatable prices at the mall. but perhaps, too, we will remember the declaration of independence itself, the product of what john adams called thomas jefferson s happy talent for composition. take some time this week to read alone to yourself or aloud with others, and tell me the words aren t still capable of setting the mind ablaze. the founders surely knew that when they let these ....