This new edition includes the classic introduction by Paul Gilroy, author of There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack, in addition to a brand-new foreword by Guardian journalist Gary Younge, which examines the book's continued significance today as we face Brexit and a revival of right wing nationalism. By rewriting black Britons into the British story, showing where they influenced political traditions, social institutions and cultural life, was - and is - a deeply effective counter to a racist and nationalist agenda. Stretching back to the Roman conquest, encompassing the court of Henry VIII, and following a host of characters from Mary Seacole to the abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, Peter Fryer paints a picture of two thousand years of Black presence in Britain.įirst published in the '80s, amidst race riots and police brutality, Fryer's history performed a deeply political act revealing how Africans, Asians and their descendants had long been erased from British history. Staying Power is a panoramic history of black Britons. Everyone who has researched or written on the subject since its publication in 1984 owes something to Fryer' - David Olusoga, author of 'Black and British: A Forgotten History' 'Encyclopedic, courageous and passionately written there is no more important and no more ground breaking a book on Black British history than 'Staying Power'.
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