Biracial Britain

Wealth of thought-provoking experiences … firmly putting biracial Britain on the map * Sunday Times *Absorbing … refreshingly open-minded … [Adekoya is] an exceptionally good listener with an ear for nuance and complexity. If there are tales of emotional suffering, the book strikes a positive note too … this book is helping to broaden the conversation – Saturday Review * The Times *… turning assumptions upside down. Largely composed of a mixed-race person sharing, in uninterrupted text, their experiences of growing up in Britain … followed by a shorter commentary by Adekoya - offering a more conceptual angle to these personal experiences … The effect of this structure is revelatory: many of the assumptions about what it means to be mixed-race are shown to bear only a superficial resemblance to reality * Evening Standard *An important treatise … there is wisdom to be garnered from the accounts contained within Biracial Britain * Buzz magazine *A bracing polemic * i news *The publishing world had already begun to reflect a growing appetite for writing on race and racism, and in 2021 the theme is developed and deepened * New Statesman *A valuable new addition to discussions on race * Black Business Guide *A ground-breaking book … Interspersed with Adekoya’s engaging reflections of his own upbringing, crucially, Adekoya seeks to argue that being mixed race is a unique identity in and of itself * Cosmopolitan *Barack Obama had a special talent for making different kinds of people feel comfortable around him because of his biracial life experience, says Adekoya. By the same token, Adekoya himself seems poised to become one of the most important and subtle new voices in Britain’s never-ending conversation about race – David Goodhart * Unherd *‘In this ground-breaking book, Polish-Nigerian author Remi Adekoya paints a nuanced and refreshingly honest picture of the mixed-race experience in Britain that’s been sorely lacking in recent years … Interspersed with Adekoya’s engaging reflections of his own upbringing, crucially, Adekoya seeks to argue that being mixed race is a unique identity in and of itself.’ * Cosmopolitan *

Dr Remi Adekoya, who is Polish-Nigerian, teaches Politics at the University of York. Remi is focussed on trying to better understand identity in its emotional, psychological and political manifestations. He is particularly interested in the links between identity, history, psychology and politics in white-majority Western societies and in black Africa. Remi has written for Guardian, Spectator, The Times, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Washington Post, Politico, Evening Standard, UnHerd and Standpoint among others. He has commented on issues of identity and politics for BBC TV, Sky News, South Africa Broadcasting Corporation, BBC Radio, Times Radio and Radio France International among others. Remi lived in Nigeria and Poland before moving to Britain.

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