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80: The Black British Experience Is Not an American One, with Tomiwa Owolade

Where We Go Next

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The Power of Black British Stories

Black British people are an immigrant community. And this is not the case with black Americans. Why is there such a desire to link their narrative to the American narrative when they are so incongruent? I think it's important to emphasize the multiplicity of what it means to be black and British precisely because the experiences of say a black Caribbean student in school is very different to the experiences of a black African student.

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