Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two Islands by Stuart Hall

Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two Islands

Stuart Hall

320 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir race reflective slow-paced

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"Growing up in a middle-class family in 1930s Kingston, Jamaica, still then a British colony, the young Stuart Hall found himself uncomfortable in his own home. He lived among Kingston's stiflingly respectable brown middle class, who, in their hab...

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Moods

informative 83%
inspiring 66%
reflective 66%
challenging 33%
emotional 33%

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medium 50%

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