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Black and British: We’re Not American – Areo

“The so-called awokening of 2020, as Alex Hochuli has argued, represented the ‘global triumph of American idealism,’ which has led non-Americans to go beyond expressing noble statements of international solidarity and imagine themselves as participants in American struggles, ‘eagerly adopting the slogans and paraphernalia of a uniquely American protest,’ in a way that obscures their own specific problems, especially in regards to race. In essence, we are all Americans now,” argues Ralph Leonard in this week’s feature.


A Review of This is Not America. Why Black Lives in Britain Matter by Tomiwa Owolade (Atlantic, 2023). In the popular perception, America is obsessed with race, while Britain is…View Post

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