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Decolonial Daughter
Decolonial Daughter: Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son | Lesley-Ann Brown
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A Trinidadian-American writer and activist explores motherhood, migration, identity, nationhood and how it relates to land, imprisonment, and genocide for Black and Indigenous peoples. Having moved to Copenhagen, Denmark from Brooklyn over 18 years ago, Brown attempts to contextualise her and her son's existence in a post-colonial and supposedly post-racial world where the very machine of so-called progress has been premised upon the demise of her lineage. Through these letters, Brown writes the past into the present - penned from the country that has been declared "The Happiest Place in the World" - creating a vision that is a necessary alternative to the dystopian one currently being bought and sold.
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Intelligent, thought provoking and illuminating. The author is an interesting and inspiring Black woman living in Denmark who has important, profound and valuable things to say about identity, racism, the legacy of slavery and the idea that we can only know who we are and where we need to go by knowing our ancestors. I found Lesley-Ann's life story to be fascinating and her passion and hope for the world is infectious and empowering.

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