4/10/2023 0 Comments Slate charlotte![]() ![]() It would have been so much easier if I had been able to say, ‘I come from Africa,’ then maybe added under my breath, ‘the long way round.’ Instead, the Africa thing hung about me like a Welsh Not, a heavy encumbrance on my soul a Not-identity an awkward reminder of what I was or what I wasn’t. It is a story of Welshness and a story of Wales and above all a story for those of us who look over our shoulder across the sea to some other place. This is both a personal memoir and a story that speaks to the wider experience of mixed-race Britons. Sugar and Slate is a story of movement and dislocation in which there is a constant pull of to-ing and fro-ing, going away and coming back with always a sense of being ‘half home’. From there she travels to Africa, the Caribbean and finally back to Wales. ![]() 'Warmly recommended to any curious minds, at 20 years old Sugar And Slate still speaks to us in these modern times, helping to ensure marginal voices remain heard.' BuzzĪ mixed-race young woman, the daughter of a white Welsh-speaking mother and black father from Guyana, grows up in a small town on the coast of north Wales. 'Within this review, I can only scrape the surface of the many dimensions of Williams’ memoir, so I strongly encourage you to read this precious book for yourself, and find those parts of it which speak most to you.' Sarah Tanburn, Nation. ‘In its exploration of geographical, racial and cultural dislocation, Sugar and Slate is in the finest tradition of work to have emerged from the black diaspora in recent times.’ The Guardian an engaging and perceptive voice describing an engrossing and particular personal story.’ Gary Younge ‘It is Williams’s Welshness that makes the examination of her mixed-race identity distinctive, but it is the humour, candour and facility of her style that make it exceptional. ![]() In association with Planet Books, a new edition of this seminal book of Welsh literature with an introduction by Professor Hazel V. ![]()
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