TY - BOOK AU - Pitts,Johny TI - Afropean: notes from Black Europe SN - 9780141984728 (hbk.) : AV - D1056.2.A38 U1 - 305.89604 PIT PY - 2019/// CY - UK PB - Allen Lane KW - Africans KW - Europe KW - Social conditions KW - Society KW - ukslc N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - 'Afropean' is an on-the-ground documentary of areas where Europeans of African descent are juggling their multiple allegiances and forging new identities. Here is an alternative map of the continent, taking the reader to places like Cova Da Moura, the Cape Verdean shantytown on the outskirts of Lisbon with its own underground economy, and Rinkeby, the area of Stockholm that is eighty per cent Muslim. Johny Pitts visits the former Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, where West African students are still making the most of Cold War ties with the USSR, and Clichy Sous Bois in Paris, which gave birth to the 2005 riots, all the while presenting Afropeans as lead actors in their own story ER -