"Hirsch’s focus is not the more violent racism she has suffered; the story of the man who took off his belt threatening to thrash her following a racist spat is only given a sentence. Rather it’s the many micro-aggressions that draw her attention. At Oxford University she was a self-consciously alien presence, irritated by porters who insisted she show her ID as she entered its colleges, while her white student friends were not stopped."
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From a review by Colin Grant of "Brit(ish) by Afua Hirsch review – everyday racism and a search for identity", The Guardian (18 January 2018)
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Afua Hirsch
Afua Hirsch FRSL (born 1981) is a British writer, broadcaster and former barrister. She has worked as a journalist for The Guardian newspaper, and was the Social Affairs and Education Editor for Sky News from 2014 until 2017. She is the author of the 2018 book Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging; Hirsch received a Jerwood Award while writing it.
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