Review:
Black Oot Here: Black Lives in Scotland
by Francesca Sobande
and layla-roxanne hill From Planet 251
Charlotte Williams
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Black Oot Here: Black Lives in Scotland
by Francesca Sobande and layla-roxanne hill
Bloomsbury, £17.99
As calls for independence reverberate around the devolved nations, the responsibility for advancing race equality has become even more acute. ‘What kind of country do we want to be?’ is a resonant question – and plotting the way into the future involves reflecting more consciously on the past.
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Charlotte Williams OBE is Professor Emeritus at Bangor University. She led the Ministerial Working Group: Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities, Contributions and Cynefin in the New Curriculum. She is a patron of Planet magazine; her award-winning memoir Sugar and Slate, originally published by Planet, will be reissued by Penguin in September as part of their Black Britain Writing Back series.
