"With the book, what I didn't want was for my conclusion to be about blame. I wanted it to be about acknowledgement and remembering, because those were the things that came out of it for me. And the fact is, we hold in ourselves so many histories. Normally so much of the narrative around race is to try to make people feel bad, rather than to make them do better. And actually, I'd just prefer them to do better."
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Andrea Stuart
Andrea Stuart (born 1962) is a Barbadian British historian and writer, who was raised in the Caribbean and the UK and now lives in the UK. Her biography of Josephine Bonaparte, entitled The Rose of Martinique, won the Enid McLeod Literary Prize in 2004.
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