{"id":50147,"date":"2016-11-23T21:48:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T21:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50147"},"modified":"2017-02-19T21:26:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T21:26:38","slug":"david-olusoga-theres-a-dark-side-to-british-history-and-we-saw-a-flash-of-it-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50147","title":{"rendered":"David Olusoga: \u2018There\u2019s a dark side to British history, and we saw a flash of it this summer\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/nov\/04\/david-olusoga-interview-black-history\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>David Olusoga: \u2018There\u2019s a dark side to British history, and we saw a flash of it this summer\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><br \/>\n2016-11-04<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arifa_akbar\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Arifa Akbar<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"552\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/nov\/04\/david-olusoga-interview-black-history\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7c8be4e5f706c321c4fbb66209e89cf0d6344253\/0_336_3896_2338\/master\/3896.jpg?w=620&amp;q=20&amp;auto=format&amp;usm=12&amp;fit=max&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=70954e830d13d3791d8493193f5b30d6\" width=\"550\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>\u2018People used to shout \u201cGo back to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Africa\" target=\"_blank\">Africa<\/a>\u201d at us\u2019 \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidOlusoga\" target=\"_blank\">David Olusoga<\/a>. <em>Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em>The writer and broadcaster on reassessing black history and the fallout from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum,_2016\" target=\"_blank\">Brexit vote<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>For as long as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidOlusoga\" target=\"_blank\">David Olusoga<\/a> has been writing and broadcasting on black British history (almost two decades), he has received infuriated letters from the public. Nowadays, there are tweets too, which employ the same fulminating tone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe number of people who say, \u2018I\u2019m sick of hearing about slavery\u2019, or \u2018black people are always talking about slavery\u2019. My response to them is \u2018Name a British plantation. Name a slave trader. Name a British slave ship.\u2019 Normally they can\u2019t, because we don\u2019t know that much about slavery. It\u2019s not a central part of our national story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Olusoga\u2019s new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50016\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Black and British: A Forgotten History<\/em><\/a>, is not about slavery as such, but it is a radical reappraisal of the parameters of history, exposing lacunae in the nation\u2019s version of its past. Domestic history cannot be separated from the vast former empire building, he argues, which was inextricably bound to the economics of global slavery. Joining up history at home and abroad makes it harder to gloss over Britain\u2019s part in the slave trade&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/nov\/04\/david-olusoga-interview-black-history\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Olusoga: \u2018There\u2019s a dark side to British history, and we saw a flash of it this summer\u2019 The Guardian 2016-11-04 Arifa Akbar \u2018People used to shout \u201cGo back to Africa\u201d at us\u2019 \u2026 David Olusoga. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian The writer and broadcaster on reassessing black history and the fallout from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,26,6940,10],"tags":[25486,25334,2103],"class_list":["post-50147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-slavery","category-uk","tag-arifa-akbar","tag-david-olusoga","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50147","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=50147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51612,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50147\/revisions\/51612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}