En cours de chargement...
That "second removal, " a mass migration from the Caribbean colonies of young men and women coming to help the 'motherland', to make their way in life and even to make their fortunes. The "first removal, " that forced migration out of the continent of Africa and into the Americas, the Atlantic Slave Trade. There is no reversal, no going back. In this thoughtful and entertaining work, the author looks at the true legacy inherited from these two removals from the viewpoint of someone whose own journey led him to becoming Muslim.
We get a chance to see the real lessons to be learned from Pan-Africanism, nationalism, socialism, Christianity & religion in general, the Black Muslim movement and traditional spiritual Islam. With such an unquestionably unique heritage it becomes blindingly obvious that the the black man and the black woman have a very significant role to play in positively shaping the future of Europe and beyond.
Much too often black people (and others of course) are expected to answer or give thought to the identity question. The trick is not to get sucked in. Other people will define you anyway, no matter what comes out of your mouth. If we really want to understand the world and how it works, to understand the reality of the two removals then we have to learn a new language. We have to learn how to "follow the money." Only then can we make sense of what was before and what is now.
In his popular book, Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell demonstrates that our "inheritances" certainly tend to play a part in who we are and what we do in life. In this book, Call of the Twice Removed, Amal Douglas, shows us that both despite, and because, of what we have inherited from our nearer and further forbears, any of us can escape the restrictions of our "historical selves" and in so doing embrace the unique opportunities that legacy affords us.
The author was himself born in the UK of Jamaican parents and schooled in the UK until age thirteen when the family moved/returned to Jamaica. After high school, university, working in the family business and time as a very young civil servant he returned to the UK as part of his own personal second removal.
