Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter

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In 2009 he won the James Cameron award for the “combined moral vision and professional integrity” of his coverage of the Obama campaign. He reports from New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, joins revelers on Chicago’s South Side for the evening of Barack Obama’s first presidential victory, files from Ferguson as the Black Lives Matter movement starts to make waves around the world, and visits Zimbabwe during the country’s descent into crisis. In the last thirty years, no one has chronicled the most important events in Black life across the globe than Gary Younge.

Dispatches from the Diaspora is an unrivalled body of work from a unique perspective that takes you to the frontlines and compels you to engage and to ‘imagine a world in which you might thrive, for which there is no evidence. Dispatches from the Diaspora is a collection of extraordinary range that exemplifies Younge's gift to his readers over the years - a journalism that is sober and clear eyed, but always undergirded by optimism and faith in humanity.Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester in England.

His writing has appeared in the New York Times , the New York Review of Books , the Financial Times, GQ, Granta , and beyond.Formerly a columnist and an editor-at-large at the Guardian, he is an editorial board member of The Nation magazine. These essays speak to his characteristic blend of discernment, clarity and humane vision, a tonic for our fighting spirit in wearying times. Dispatches from the Diaspora brings together the vibrant journalism of one of the leading Black voices spanning the Atlantic, providing a must-read for anyone interested in the way we understand contemporary issues of race and identity.

Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and professor of sociology at the University of Manchester in Britain. Dispatches from the Diaspora is an unrivalled body of work from a unique perspective that takes you to the frontlines and compels you to engage and to imagine a world in which you might thrive, for which there is no evidence. From Nobel Laureates Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter to theatre greats Tom Stoppard and Alan Bennett to rising stars Polly Stenham and Florian Zeller, Faber Drama presents the very best theatre has to offer. No single journalist has done more to shape my understanding of Black diaspora's experiences in the world today - Gary Younge's is not a first draft of history, but storytelling that will survive us all. Being seen only as the thing that makes you different through the lens of those with the power to make that difference matter really is limiting.Formerly a columnist and an editor-at-large at the Guardian, he is an editorial board member of the Nation magazine and a Type Media fellow. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

He is the author of five books, including Another Day in the Death of America (shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Jhalak Prize). No other journalist/author I know of, has his intellectual vigour, emotional understanding and grace.A powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and Black life and death from one of the nation's leading political voices. A powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and Black life and death from one of the nation’s leading political voices. A fear of being ‘pigeon-holed’ is one of the most common crippling anxieties of any minority in any profession. Lewisham is the London Borough of Culture 2022 and has a proud history of supporting refugees and migrants.