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African Europeans: An Untold History

African Europeans: An Untold History

Otele, Olivette

Paperback

African HistoryGeneral European HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 1541619927
ISBN13: 9781541619920
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: Aug 29 2023
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.85 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, masterfully (Smithsonian) revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent

A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History

Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned historian Olivette Otele debunks this and uncovers a long history of Europeans of African descent. From the third century, when the Egyptian Saint Maurice became the leader of a Roman legion, all the way up to the present, Otele explores encounters between those defined as Africans and those called Europeans. She gives equal attention to the most prominent figures--like Alessandro de Medici, the first duke of Florence thought to have been born to a free African woman in a Roman village--and the untold stories--like the lives of dual-heritage families in Europe's coastal trading towns.

African Europeans is a landmark celebration of this integral, vibrantly complex slice of European history, and will redefine the field for years to come.

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