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My Black Stars From Lucy to Barack Obama

Thuram, Lilian
Heftet / 2021 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781800859173
Publisert
2021-06-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Liverpool University Press
HĂžyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
AldersnivÄ
00, G, 01
SprÄk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Thuram, Lilian
Oversetter
Dubois Laurent

Biographical note

Lilian Thuram was born in Guadeloupe in 1972. In 2008, he created a Foundation for Education against Racism, and he is author of several books, including: Mes Etoiles noires (2010), which won the Seligmann Prize for anti-racism, Manifeste pour l’égalitĂ© (2012), Notre histoire (2014 & 2016), La PensĂ©e blanche (2020). In an earlier life, he enjoyed a highly successful football career, winning the World Cup (1998) and the European Championship (2000). My Black Stars was written in collaboration with Bernard Fillaire. Laurent Dubois is Co-Director of the Democracy Initiative at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Soccer Empire (2010) and The Language of the Game (2018).

My Black Stars From Lucy to Barack Obama

Thuram, Lilian
Heftet / 2021 / Engelsk
Thuram, Lilian
Heftet / 2021 / Engelsk
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People, young and old, need stars to guide them. They need models to construct their own identity, to build their self-esteem, to change the way they see the world and to overcome their own and others’ prejudice.During my childhood, many stars were pointed out to me. I admired them, dreamt about them: Socrates, Baudelaire, Einstein, Marie Curie, General de Gaulle, Mother Teresa
 But nobody ever spoke to me about black stars. The world of my education was white, from the colour of the school walls to the pages of my textbooks. I knew nothing about my own ancestors. Slavery was the only black subject ever mentioned. In this vision, the history of Black people could only ever be a vale of tears and strife.Can you tell me the name of a black scientist?A black explorer?A black philosopher?A black pharaoh?If you don’t know the answer to these questions, then, whatever the colour of your skin, this book is for you. Because the best way to fight racism and intolerance is to educate ourselves and to broaden our imaginations.The portraits of the men and women in this book are a product of my own reading and my interviews with scholars. Starting with Lucy and ending with Barack Obama, and along the way meeting Aesop, Dona BĂ©atrice, Pushkin, Anne Zingha, AimĂ© CĂ©saire, Martin Luther King and many others. These stars have allowed me to reject the idea that I am a victim, to renew my faith in mankind and, above all, to believe in myself. - Lilian ThuramThis translation of Lilian Thuram’s bestselling 2010 volume, Mes Etoiles Noires, by Laurent Dubois (University of Virginia), finally brings his anti-racism work to the attention of an English-language audience (the book has already been translated into several European languages). At a time when the Black Lives Matter movement has reminded us of the need to tell more complex stories about our shared past, this volume constitutes a timely intervention by a prominent black sporting figure.
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In this vision, the history of Black people could only ever be a vale of tears and strife.Can you tell me the name of a black scientist?A black explorer?A black philosopher?A black pharaoh?If you don’t know the answer to these questions, then, whatever the colour of your skin, this book is for you.
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IntroductionOur African ‘Grandmother’LucyThe Black PharoahsTaharqaA Wise Man from Ancient GreeceAesop‘Every Life is a Life’The Hunters of MandenThe Pride and Courage of a QueenAnna ZinghaThe Struggle for a New KingdomDona BeatrizGeneral-in-Chief of the Russian Imperial ArmyAbraham Petrovitch HannibalA Philosopher from GhanaAnton Wilhelm AmoThe Musician of the EnlightenmentChevalier de Saint-Georges‘Uproot the tree of slavery with me’Toussaint LouvertureThe Liberator of HaitiJean-Jacques DessalinesThe Poet of Paradise LostPhillis WheatleyThe Oath of the AncestorsGuillaume Guillon LethiĂšre‘A first shot up to shatter the fog’Louis DelgrĂšs & Solitude‘Ain’t I a Woman?’Sojourner TruthThe Greatest Russian PoetAlexander PushkinThe First Black American Presidential CandidateFrederick DouglassSmuggling in the Name of LibertyHarriet TubmanAgainst the Invention of the RacesJoseph AntĂ©nor FirminThe First Black ‘NĂšgre’ at the École Polytechnique of FranceCamille MortenolThe First Man to Reach the North PoleMatthew HensonA Whirlwind on Two WheelsMajor TaylorThe Hell of the Human ZoosOta BengaBack to AfricaMarcus Mosiah Garvey‘No time rest, all the time make war, all the time kill blacks’Tirailleurs SĂ©nĂ©galaisChampion of the WorldBattling SikiThe Black DragonflyPanama Al BrownA Pen of RageRichard Nathaniel WrightThe Silent Resistance FighterAddi BĂąThe Genius of Black Scientific PioneersScientists, Inventors, Researchers
‘Trees in the South Bear Strange Fruit’Billie Holliday‘Our Time Has Come’AimĂ© CĂ©saireReturning Africa to Her ChildrenPatrice Emery LumumbaBlack Skin, White MasksFrantz FanonThe SparkRosa Louise McCauley ParksLiberty or DeathMalcolm XA Dream that Changed the WorldDr Martin Luther King, JrA Militant for the African PeopleMongo Beti‘I am super fast! I fight with my mind.’Muhammad AliThe Man who ran the GauntletTommie SmithFrom Ten Thousand Days in Prison to
 the PresidencyRolihlahla Nelson MandelaInterplanetary VoyagerCheick Modibo DiarraThe Voice of the VoicelessMumia Abu-JamalThe Emotional Truth of RapTupac Amaru ShakurThe Star of HopeBarack Hussein ObamaNo, This Map is Not Upside DownWords that Liberate the Future, by Gilles-Marie ValetBibliography
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'At the heart of [The Lilian Thuram Foundation For Education Against Racism's] activities has been the publication of a series of books that do the legwork of imagining the world differently. The first and best-selling of these is My Black Stars [...] now finally available in English. [...] Thuram tackles the persistance of a world view that consistently prioritises white people and white culture, [...] keeping the struggle for equality at the heart of the public debate.' David Murphy, When Saturday Comes
Les mer

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People, young and old, need stars to guide them. They need models to construct their own identity, to build their self-esteem, to change the way they see the world and to overcome their own and others’ prejudice.During my childhood, many stars were pointed out to me. I admired them, dreamt about them: Socrates, Baudelaire, Einstein, Marie Curie, General de Gaulle, Mother Teresa
 But nobody ever spoke to me about black stars. The world of my education was white, from the colour of the school walls to the pages of my textbooks. I knew nothing about my own ancestors. Slavery was the only black subject ever mentioned. In this vision, the history of Black people could only ever be a vale of tears and strife.Can you tell me the name of a black scientist?A black explorer?A black philosopher?A black pharaoh?If you don’t know the answer to these questions, then, whatever the colour of your skin, this book is for you. Because the best way to fight racism and intolerance is to educate ourselves and to broaden our imaginations.The portraits of the men and women in this book are a product of my own reading and my interviews with scholars. Starting with Lucy and ending with Barack Obama, and along the way meeting Aesop, Dona BĂ©atrice, Pushkin, Anne Zingha, AimĂ© CĂ©saire, Martin Luther King and many others. These stars have allowed me to reject the idea that I am a victim, to renew my faith in mankind and, above all, to believe in myself. - Lilian ThuramThis translation of Lilian Thuram’s bestselling 2010 volume, Mes Etoiles Noires, by Laurent Dubois (University of Virginia), finally brings his anti-racism work to the attention of an English-language audience (the book has already been translated into several European languages). At a time when the Black Lives Matter movement has reminded us of the need to tell more complex stories about our shared past, this volume constitutes a timely intervention by a prominent black sporting figure.
Les mer
In this vision, the history of Black people could only ever be a vale of tears and strife.Can you tell me the name of a black scientist?A black explorer?A black philosopher?A black pharaoh?If you don’t know the answer to these questions, then, whatever the colour of your skin, this book is for you.
Les mer
IntroductionOur African ‘Grandmother’LucyThe Black PharoahsTaharqaA Wise Man from Ancient GreeceAesop‘Every Life is a Life’The Hunters of MandenThe Pride and Courage of a QueenAnna ZinghaThe Struggle for a New KingdomDona BeatrizGeneral-in-Chief of the Russian Imperial ArmyAbraham Petrovitch HannibalA Philosopher from GhanaAnton Wilhelm AmoThe Musician of the EnlightenmentChevalier de Saint-Georges‘Uproot the tree of slavery with me’Toussaint LouvertureThe Liberator of HaitiJean-Jacques DessalinesThe Poet of Paradise LostPhillis WheatleyThe Oath of the AncestorsGuillaume Guillon LethiĂšre‘A first shot up to shatter the fog’Louis DelgrĂšs & Solitude‘Ain’t I a Woman?’Sojourner TruthThe Greatest Russian PoetAlexander PushkinThe First Black American Presidential CandidateFrederick DouglassSmuggling in the Name of LibertyHarriet TubmanAgainst the Invention of the RacesJoseph AntĂ©nor FirminThe First Black ‘NĂšgre’ at the École Polytechnique of FranceCamille MortenolThe First Man to Reach the North PoleMatthew HensonA Whirlwind on Two WheelsMajor TaylorThe Hell of the Human ZoosOta BengaBack to AfricaMarcus Mosiah Garvey‘No time rest, all the time make war, all the time kill blacks’Tirailleurs SĂ©nĂ©galaisChampion of the WorldBattling SikiThe Black DragonflyPanama Al BrownA Pen of RageRichard Nathaniel WrightThe Silent Resistance FighterAddi BĂąThe Genius of Black Scientific PioneersScientists, Inventors, Researchers
‘Trees in the South Bear Strange Fruit’Billie Holliday‘Our Time Has Come’AimĂ© CĂ©saireReturning Africa to Her ChildrenPatrice Emery LumumbaBlack Skin, White MasksFrantz FanonThe SparkRosa Louise McCauley ParksLiberty or DeathMalcolm XA Dream that Changed the WorldDr Martin Luther King, JrA Militant for the African PeopleMongo Beti‘I am super fast! I fight with my mind.’Muhammad AliThe Man who ran the GauntletTommie SmithFrom Ten Thousand Days in Prison to
 the PresidencyRolihlahla Nelson MandelaInterplanetary VoyagerCheick Modibo DiarraThe Voice of the VoicelessMumia Abu-JamalThe Emotional Truth of RapTupac Amaru ShakurThe Star of HopeBarack Hussein ObamaNo, This Map is Not Upside DownWords that Liberate the Future, by Gilles-Marie ValetBibliography
Les mer
'At the heart of [The Lilian Thuram Foundation For Education Against Racism's] activities has been the publication of a series of books that do the legwork of imagining the world differently. The first and best-selling of these is My Black Stars [...] now finally available in English. [...] Thuram tackles the persistance of a world view that consistently prioritises white people and white culture, [...] keeping the struggle for equality at the heart of the public debate.' David Murphy, When Saturday Comes
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781800859173
Publisert
2021-06-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Liverpool University Press
HĂžyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
AldersnivÄ
00, G, 01
SprÄk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Thuram, Lilian
Oversetter
Dubois Laurent

Biographical note

Lilian Thuram was born in Guadeloupe in 1972. In 2008, he created a Foundation for Education against Racism, and he is author of several books, including: Mes Etoiles noires (2010), which won the Seligmann Prize for anti-racism, Manifeste pour l’égalitĂ© (2012), Notre histoire (2014 & 2016), La PensĂ©e blanche (2020). In an earlier life, he enjoyed a highly successful football career, winning the World Cup (1998) and the European Championship (2000). My Black Stars was written in collaboration with Bernard Fillaire. Laurent Dubois is Co-Director of the Democracy Initiative at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Soccer Empire (2010) and The Language of the Game (2018).

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