{"id":4001,"date":"2009-12-22T05:16:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T05:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=4001"},"modified":"2013-06-16T21:06:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T21:06:27","slug":"sugar-slate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=4001","title":{"rendered":"Sugar &#038; Slate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetmagazine.org.uk\/html\/newsite\/books_details\/sugarspice.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Sugar &amp; Slate<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetmagazine.org.uk\/html\/newsite\/planet_books.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Planet Books<\/a><br \/>\nJanuary 2002<br \/>\n192 pages<br \/>\nISBN-10: 0954088107<br \/>\nISBN-13: 978-0954088101<br \/>\n8.1 x 5.8 x 0.6 inches<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keele.ac.uk\/depts\/so\/socialwork\/people\/williams.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte Williams<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Social Work<br \/>\n<em>Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetmagazine.org.uk\/html\/newsite\/books_details\/sugarspice.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.planetmagazine.org.uk\/html\/newsite\/images\/bookcovers\/big\/Sugar%20and%20Slate%20web.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year, 2003<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A mixed-race young woman, the daughter of a white Welsh-speaking mother and black father from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guyana\" target=\"_blank\">Guyana<\/a>, grows up in a small town on the coast of north <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wales\" target=\"_blank\">Wales<\/a>. From there she travels to Africa, the Caribbean and finally back to Wales. What begins as a journey becomes a fascinating confrontation with herself and with the idea of Wales and Welshness.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Sugar and Slate<\/em> is a remarkable personal memoir that speaks to the wider experience of mixed-race Britons, characterised by its constant pull of to-ing and fro-ing, movement and dislocation, going away and coming back with always a sense of being \u2018half home\u2019.<\/strong> It is a story of Welshness and a story of Wales but above all a story for those of us who look over our shoulder across the sea to some other place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sugar &amp; Slate Planet Books January 2002 192 pages ISBN-10: 0954088107 ISBN-13: 978-0954088101 8.1 x 5.8 x 0.6 inches Charlotte Williams, Professor of Social Work Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year, 2003 A mixed-race young woman, the daughter of a white Welsh-speaking mother and black father [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,21,125,8,10,25],"tags":[20761,1614,191],"class_list":["post-4001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-latincarib","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-uk","category-women","tag-africa","tag-charlotte-williams","tag-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}