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A beautiful memoir written by the first black female TV journalist about her experience migrating from the Caribbean to the UK, and the beauty and struggle of becoming a woman during that experienceTravelling over from Jamaica as a teenager, Barbara's journey is remarkable. She finds her footing in TV, and blossoms. Covering incredible celebrity stories, travelling around the world and rubbing shoulders with the likes of Germaine Greer and Michael Caine - her life sparkles. But with the responsibility of being the first black woman reporting on TV comes an enormous amount of pressure, and a flood of hateful letters and complaints from viewers that eventually costs her the job.In the aftermath of this fallout, she goes through a period of self-discovery that allows her to carve out a new space for herself first in the UK and then back home in Jamaica - one that allows her to embrace and celebrate her black identity, rather than feeling suffocated in her attempts to emulate whiteness and conform to the culture around her.Growing Out provides a dazzling, revelatory depiction of race and womanhood in the 1960s from an entirely unique perspective.
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Barbara Blake Hannah (Author)Barbara Blake Hannah is a Jamaican author, journalist, filmmaker and cultural consultant. She trained as a journalist, then emigrated to London and worked as a PR Executive for the Jamaica Tourist Board and Government. She became the first Black TV journalist in the UK in 1968, starring in TV programmes 'TODAY with Eammon Andrews' and 'ATV TODAY', and working as a producer on BBC-TV's 'MAN ALIVE'. In 1972 she returned to Jamaica as a PR Officer for the first Jamaican film "The Harder They Come" and continued writing articles and books, becoming a Rastafari and articulate campaigner for acceptance of the religion. In 1984 she was appointed an Independent Opposition Senator, the first Rastafari to sit in the Jamaican Parliament. In 2001, she served as a member of the Jamaican delegation to the UN World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) in Durban, South Africa, where she was appointed a member of the special plenary on Reparations, after which she established the Jamaica Reparations Movement that led to the establishment of the government's Parliamentary Commission on Reparations (2008). She presently serves as Cultural Liaison to the Jamaican Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment & Sport, and continues to work in the film industry.Bernardine Evaristo (Introducer)Bernardine Evaristo, MBE, is the award-winning author of eight books of fiction and verse fiction that explore aspects of the African diaspora. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other made her the first black woman to win the Booker Prize in 2019, as well winning the Fiction Book of the Year Award at the British Book Awards in 2020, where she also won Author of the Year, and the Indie Book Award. She also became the first woman of colour and black British writer to reach No.1 in the UK paperback fiction chart in 2020. Her writing spans reviews, essays, drama and radio, and she has edited and guest-edited national publications, including The Sunday Time's Style magazine. Her other awards and honours include an MBE in 2009. Bernardine is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University, London, and President of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in London with her husband.
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A beautiful book. Her writing is just so dynamic and alive -- Bernardine EvaristoIt is a fascinating book, both for [Barbara Blake Hannah's] vivid descriptions of her new life in Britain . . . and for the painful recollections of the racism she faced . . . Wide-eyed wonder jostles with a vitriolic anger - sometimes in the same paragraph * The Telegraph *
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A beautiful book. Her writing is just so dynamic and alive
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A beautiful memoir written by the first black female TV journalist about her experience migrating from the Caribbean to the UK, and the beauty and struggle of becoming a woman during that experience
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A powerful, vivid memoir from the first Black female TV journalist in the UK depicting London in the swinging sixties from a black perspective First published in 2016 A title in the Black Britain: Writing Back Series; rediscovered classic texts depicting black Britain across the last century Each title is thoughtfully repackaged with a fresh, bold look that features cover artwork by black British artists The series is curated by critically-acclaimed Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo, and each book includes a beautiful introduction written by her
Details ISBN0241993768 Author Bernardine Evaristo Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Year 2022 ISBN-10 0241993768 ISBN-13 9780241993767 Publication Date 2022-02-03 UK Release Date 2022-02-03 Format Paperback Imprint Penguin Books Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Series Black Britain: Writing Back Pages 224 Subtitle Black Hair and Black Pride in the Swinging 60s Illustrator Gladys Jose Birth 1927 Affiliation Clark University Position journalist Qualifications PsyD DEWEY 791.4508996041 Audience General NZ Release Date 2022-05-16 AU Release Date 2022-05-16 Alternative 9780241993774 We've got this
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