{"product_id":"9780349014616-where-are-you-from-no-where-are-you-really-from","title":"Osler Audrey - Where Are You From? No Where Are You Really From? - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: A story of migration identity and belonging drawing on the stories of people from Audrey Osler's mixed - heritage family over three centuries. Whether or not we trace our families from beyond the shores of Britain we British people deserve a better understanding of our shared past and opportunities to explore and recognise the complexities and contractions of empire. Careless or wilful amnesia has allowed the British migration narrative to begin in the mid - twentieth century with migrants from India Pakistan and the Caribbean forming the foundation of present - day multicultural Britain. A racist fixation means that some twenty - first - century Britons fantasise that people of colour arrived after World War Two without any link to the country to exploit the British welfare state and British hospitality. For people of colour the questions Where are you from? No where are you really from? often imply more than simple curiosity. They are political questions of identity since the assumption (naive or aggressive) is that to be British and to belong you must be white. Says Audrey Osler: The British Empire frames and shapes my family's history. Whether born in Britain like me or my father or in some other distant British territory like my mother we all continue to experience the legacy of this same empire and the impact of its ambitions politics and economics. My family story back to the eighteenth century across every generation is one of migration in different directions over four centuries journeys prompted by war study a global economic crisis a fresh start love and even child abduction. The stories I tell here reveal as much about Britain as they do about the countries of the British Empire. This is not just my history it elucidates the largely untold history of a nation and of its citizens both people of colour and white.'\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Where Are You From? No Where Are You Really From?\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Osler Audrey\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Little Brown Book Group\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780349014616\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 224 Pages, Black And White Photographs\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 1\/7\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: History","brand":"Osler Audrey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51333105942833,"sku":"IN-G-9780349014616","price":15.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9780349014616.jpg?v=1754877766","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780349014616-where-are-you-from-no-where-are-you-really-from","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}