{"id":62798,"date":"2022-01-18T02:55:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T02:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62798"},"modified":"2022-01-18T02:55:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T02:55:08","slug":"the-space-between-black-and-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62798","title":{"rendered":"The Space Between Black and White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacarandabooksartmusic.co.uk\/products\/the-space-between-black-and-white-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The Space Between Black and White<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacarandabooksartmusic.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jacaranda Books<\/a><br \/>\n2020-03-03<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9781913090128<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esuantsiwagoldsmith.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Esuantsiwa Jane Goldsmith<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacarandabooksartmusic.co.uk\/products\/the-space-between-black-and-white-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jacaranda-uk.imgix.net\/covers\/9781913090128.jpg?auto=format&amp;w=425\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This unique <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacarandabooksartmusic.co.uk\/collections\/twentyin2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#TwentyIn2020<\/a> memoir sheds light on Esuantsiwa Jane Goldsmith&#8217;s journey as a feminist and political activist. The book illuminates her inner journey of self-discovery and uncovers truths that could help a growing community of mixed-race people struggling to find their own space in the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Illuminating her inner journey growing up mixed-race in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Britain<\/a>, Esua Jane Goldsmith&#8217;s unique memoir exposes the isolation and ambiguities that often come with being \u2018an only\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Raised in 1950s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_London\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South London<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norfolk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Norfolk<\/a> with a white, working-class family, Esua\u2019s education in racial politics was immediate and personal. From Britain and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scandinavia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scandinavia<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Italy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Italy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tanzania\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tanzania<\/a>, she tackled inequality wherever she saw it, establishing an inspiring legacy in the Women\u2019s lib and Black Power movements.<\/p>\n<p>Plagued by questions of her heritage and the inability to locate all pieces of herself, she embarks on a journey to Ghana to find the father who may have the answers.<\/p>\n<p>A tale of love, comradeship, and identity crises, Esua\u2019s rise to the first Black woman president of Leicester University Students\u2019 Union and Queen Mother of her village, is inspiring, honest, and full of heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illuminating her inner journey growing up mixed-race in Britain, Esua Jane Goldsmith&#8217;s unique memoir exposes the isolation and ambiguities that often come with being \u2018an only\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,395,11,28,8,17,10],"tags":[32785,1797,31134,31137,32786,9496],"class_list":["post-62798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-autobiography","category-books","category-europe","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-uk","tag-esuantsiwa-jane-goldsmith","tag-italy","tag-jacaranda-books","tag-norfolk","tag-south-london","tag-tanzania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62798","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=62798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62800,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62798\/revisions\/62800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}