Brit(ish)
On Race, Identity and Belonging
(Author) Afua HirschFrom Afua Hirsch - co-presenter of Samuel L. Jackson's major BBC TV series Enslaved - the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the uncomfortable truth about race and identity in Britain today. You're British. Your parents are British. Your partner, your children and most of your friends are British. So why do people keep asking where you're from? We are a nation in denial about our imperial past and the racism that plagues our present. Brit(ish) is Afua Hirsch's personal and provocative exploration of how this came to be - and an urgent call for change. 'The book for our divided and dangerous times' David Olusoga
Afua Hirsch
Afua Hirsch is a British writer, broadcaster, and former barrister renowned for her exploration of race, identity, and social justice. She authored the Sunday Times bestseller Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging (2018), which examines Britishness and identity. Her recent work, Decolonising My Body: A Radical Exploration of Rituals and Beauty (2023), delves into beauty, rituals, and ancestry as an approach to radical justice. Hirsch has held the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Journalism and Communication at the University of Southern California and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2024.
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