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Gender and Race in Historical International Relations episode 1: Blonde Roots

Universiteit Leiden Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen Season 1 Episode 1

Rüya Erdoğan and Mirjam Wolting discuss Bernardine Evaristo's 'Blonde Roots'. Evaristo’s 2008 novel reverses the roles in the narrative of slavery, placing Africans as masters and Europeans as slaves through a fictional story of Doris, a white girl from England who is abducted and shipped to the fictional United Kingdom of Great Ambossa.