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"The Good Immigrant is a lively and vital intervention into the British cultural conversation around race. Instead of statistics and dogma we find real human experience and impassioned argument – and it's funny and moving, too. A must read!" (Zadie Smith)

"The stories are sometimes funny, sometimes brutal, always honest … if I could, I’d push a copy of this through the letter box of every front door in Britain." (Independent)

"Highly recommended … It's precisely those who might at first think this book is not about us, who should read it" (Spectator)

"Perceptive, touching and funny" (Observer)

"An important, timely read." (J. K. Rowling)

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Nikesh Shukla is a writer whose debut novel Coconut Unlimited (Quartet Books) was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2010 and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2011. In 2011 he co-wrote with Kieran Yates an essay about the London riots, Generation Vexed: What the Riots Don't Tell Us About Our Nation's Youth (Random House). In 2013 he released The Time Machine (Galley Beggars Press), a novella about food which won Best Novella at the Sabotage Awards.

His second novel, Meatspace, was published by The Friday Project, his short stories have featured in numerous anthologies and magazines, and he has previously been writer in residence for BBC Asian Network and Royal Festival Hall.

In 2014 he co-wrote Two Dosas, an award-winning short film starring Himesh Patel. His Channel 4 Comedy Lab Kabadasses aired on E4 and Channel 4 in 2011 and starred Shazad Latif, Jack Doolan and Josie Long.

He currently hosts The Subaltern podcast, an anti-panel discussion featuring conversations with writers about writing. Guests have included Zadie Smith, Junot Diaz, Teju Cole, James Salter, George Saunders, Jennifer Egan, Evie Wyld, Sam Bain, Alex Preston, Colson Whitehead and more. He also co-hosts a podcast with sci-fi writer James Smythe, Meat Up, Hulk Out.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Unbound; 1st edition (4 May 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1783523956
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1783523955
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 1.7 x 19.8 cm

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Dr Darren Chetty was born in Swansea. He is a writer, teacher and researcher. He has published academic work on philosophy, education, racism, children’s literature and hip-hop culture.
He is a contributor to the bestselling book, The Good Immigrant, edited by Nikesh Shukla (Unbound). Darren co-authored, with Jeffrey Boakye, What Is Masculinity? Why Does It Matter? And Other Big Questions (Wayland). He is co-author, with Adam Ferner, of How To Disagree: Negotiating Difference in a Divided World (Quarto). Darren co-edited Welsh (Plural) published in 2022 by Repeater.
Darren's first picture book, illustrated by Sandhya Prabhat, is entitled I'm Going To Make a Friend (Little Tiger / Tiger Tales).
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Salena Godden FRSL is an award-winning author, poet and broadcaster of Jamaican-mixed heritage based in London. In 2021 Canongate published her highly acclaimed debut novel 'Mrs Death Misses Death'. It won The Indie Book Award for fiction and The Peoples Book Prize and was also shortlisted for The British Book Awards and The Gordon Burn Prize.
Salena Godden's work has been widely anthologised and broadcast on BBC radio and TV and film. Her essay 'Shade' was published in award-wining anthology 'The Good Immigrant' (Unbound, 2016). She has had several volumes of poetry published including 'Under The Pier' (Nasty Little Press, 2011) 'Fishing in the Aftermath: Poems 1994-2014' (Burning Eye Books, 2014) 'Pessimism is for Lightweights - 13 Pieces of Courage and Resistance' (Rough Trade Books, 2018) and also the childhood memoir 'Springfield Road' (Unbound, 2014). Her self-produced poetry album 'LIVEwire' (Nymphs and Thugs, 2016) was shortlisted for The Ted Hughes Prize. The Royal Society of Literature inducted Godden as a fellow FRSL in 2022. She is also a patron of Hastings Book Festival and an Honorary Fellow of West Dean, Sussex.
A new hardback edition of 'Pessimism is for Lightweights - 30 Pieces of Courage and Resistance' was published in February 2023 by Rough Trade Books, featuring revised and new material, an introduction by John Higgs and an Old English translation of the title poem by Emily Cotman. The poem 'Pessimism is for Lightweights' is on permanent display at The Peoples History Museum, Manchester.
Salena Godden is currently working on three new books for Canongate: Literary childhood memoir 'Springfield Road - A Poets Childhood Revisited' and full poetry collection 'With Love, Grief and Fury' will be published together in May 2024. Plus an eagerly anticipated 2nd novel set in the 'Mrs Death Misses Death' universe will be published by Canongate in spring 2025.
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Sabrina Mahfouz is a writer and performer, raised in London and Cairo.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) and resident writer at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. Her most recent theatre show was A History of Water in the Middle East (Royal Court, 2019) and her most recent publications as editor include Smashing It: Working Class Artists on Life, Art and Making it Happen (Saqi, 2019) and Poems From a Green and Blue Planet (Hachette, 2019).
Sabrina’s published and produced theatre work includes Chef, a Fringe First Award winner; Dry Ice, for which she was nominated in The Stage Awards for Acting Excellence; With a Little Bit of Luck, which won Best Drama Production in the BBC Radio & Music Awards 2019; Clean, a Herald Angel Award winner which transferred to New York and she recently adapted Malorie Blackman’s celebrated YA novel Noughts & Crosses for Pilot Theatre.
She also writes for children and her play Zeraffa Giraffa (based on the book by Diane Hofmeyr and Jane Ray) won a 2018 Off West End Award.
Her poetry collection, How You Might Know Me, was a 2017 Guardian Best Summer Read and she was an essay contributor to the award-winning anthology The Good Immigrant (2016, Unbound).
Sabrina is the editor of The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write, a 2017 Guardian Book of the Year, a London's Big Read finalist and selected by Emma Watson for her feminist book club, Our Shared Shelf.
She's a regular on BBC Radio 4 recently presenting Word of Mouth, Poetry Please and writing fiction for Short Works.
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It is difficult to understate the timeliness and importance of this collection—The Good Immigrant

At this point in global affairs, it seems almost everywhere we turn (cable news, twitter feeds, local newspaper headlines, to name but a few) that modern race relations have come to this inevitable and necessary tipping point—an empathetic dialogue where we all must confront not only our own weirdly constructed fears but our mirrored prejudices that we push out into society through thought, word, action, and thus public policy.

Here, Nikesh Shukla has assembled 21 writers—creatives each from individual disciplines and backgrounds, with their own stories of what it feels like to be perpetually deemed an outsider, or looked at with hateful distrust. The stories are humorous, harrowing, shocking, polemic, true and real. Each story in The Good Immigrant is what it feels like to try on someone else’s shoes and walk around in them for a while.

‘Airports and Auditions’ by actor/hip-hop artist Riz Ahmed is one of the best! This collection is a much-needed antidote for an increasingly isolationist, nativist, cold-shouldered, distrustful wall-building world.

Worth a first read, a second read and then some!

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 January 2017
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First up – this was a great idea for a book, as black representation on the screen and/or the written mainstream word is certainly lacking – a point pushed throughout the real life experiences of the authors. The fact that the book contains essays from many ethnicities only adds to its appeal. Quite rightly it demonstrates how black and Asian people are largely invisible, or merely Daily Mail cannon-fodder, unless they enter the public consciousness by their hard work or ability – as when making cakes or making us laugh – an honourable idea somewhat let down by the fact that the writers are exclusively drawn from a well-to-do literary/artistic background – rather than featuring someone who works in a care home, for example, whose work is equally as socially important as someone who makes a living by appearing on the TV. Some of the chapters, for instance the one by Daniel York Loh, were also highly amusing especially if, like me, you are the product of a late seventies education.
In addition, I also enjoyed the Darren Chetty chapter as he recounts how black faces on books are deemed a drawback when it comes to appealing to white audiences. I would agree with him on this one, as when I was out selling the first book my wife and I wrote, our multicultural memoir One Love Two Colours: The Unlikely Marriage of a Punk Rocker and His African Queen. Bobby Smith and Margaret Oshindele-Smith I found it was normally only black women who would buy it. Most white and Asian people just ignored the wares I was peddling. Depressing but true.
However, the otherwise noble sentiment of the book is spoiled by the depressing tone that reigns throughout. As an example the chapter by the writer Varaidzo, a mixed-race lady, includes the age-old assertion of the ‘one-drop rule’ when it comes to describing someone of mixed-race. For her she is black rather than mixed, thereby conforming to the idiotic white supremacist beliefs that were popular at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century – where one drop of black blood led to you being categorised as such. Have we not moved on since that time? Why should we allow such thoughts to blight the optimism that the young are supposed to have? If Varaidzo wants to describe herself as black then that is her prerogative, as no one else has the right to apply labels either to her or to anyone else where matters of race are concerned, but ‘one-drop’ is a flawed concept that needs to be updated. I should add here that my two children are mixed – my wife of twenty years is Yoruba Nigerian – and they are perfectly happy to call themselves mixed race. I think the biggest problem for mixed-race children - and children in general - is if their parents separate during their childhood, before they are fully developed, as both parents have an important part to play in their upbringing. This brings me neatly onto my big bug-bear with the book…
For me, by far the worst chapter is the one by Reni Eddo-Lodge – especially the part where she berates Bill Cosby for his much publicized conservative speech back in 2004, where he laid the blame on African-Americans for their poor educational attainment. She quotes him at length over his comments about African American men running away from women once they are pregnant. As a self-declared feminist one would have thought that she would be in agreement with such thoughts, as men have a duty to care for their offspring as much as women. But no, instead she criticises him for ‘class hatred of respectability politics’. She then explains that ‘black people are living under the weight of poverty’. Well, hello, is not a prime driver of that the fact that many black women have to bring up children largely alone (in the West), with little or no help either from the absent father or government? I found it almost unbelievable that she could not make the connection herself. Outside factors such as racism and prejudice obviously play a part but it is the single-parent factor that is the elephant in the room – and the only one that the individual can change for themselves. I may only be a white man but ‘some of my best friends’ are black single-parents and all struggle to get by alone. It is also worth pointing out that the single-parent issue is a relatively recent phenomenon, as black couples in the sixties were just as likely to get married as their white counterparts. It is the ‘big man’ attitude of looking up at someone who has lots of children that should stop, rather than shooting the messenger. The irony here is that the writer describes herself as a ‘London-born-and-raised Nigerian girl’. Well, I know many a Nigerian and nearly all are married and living in the same house as their children. Indeed, Yoruba culture is very much family orientated, with respect to elders and strangers seen as a natural way of behaving. And yet this all seems to be jettisoned as we import these ridiculous notions from America – a place that shares little of the cultural values of the UK.
Of course, most white folks tend not to get involved in issues of race, as you will always manage to offend someone either directly or indirectly, but one of the benefits of a long-term ‘mixed’ marriage is that matters of race get daily airings, with the result that nothing is off-limits. It is not a matter of being ‘colour-blind’ – that oft quoted catch-all-phrase so beloved of liberals – but of being aware of the differences – and similarities – that history has imposed on both black and white people.
Back to the book! I also enjoyed the Vera Chok chapter when she made references to the sexual imagery that is rampant where ethnic minorities are concerned. Funnily enough I remember my own honeymoon – all those years ago – when my wife Margaret was called over to a car by a bunch of white Italians in Rome. They offered her money for sexual favours thinking the reason she was with me was due to her being a prostitute. When we politely declined their offer (so English!) and explained that we were a newly-wed couple they looked puzzled. They genuinely could not understand why a white man would marry a black woman – which was the only way they viewed my wife, her personality and charm deemed an irrelevance when compared to their lazy prejudice in the sun.
Another chapter that had the ring of truth to it was the one by Coco Khan, as she described the mental anguish she went through after sleeping with the ‘enemy’ – as interracial sex was once labelled. Post-coitus she recounts how she was horrified at the Union Jack flags on display in her lover’s bedroom. Well, my wife had the same experience with me when I first lured her into my harem. For my sins I happen to be a huge fan of German punk and skinhead music and had plastered German slogans all over my bathroom in a vague attempt for it to resemble the Haffenstrasse in Hamburg (famous punk squat area back in the 1980s). Margaret was mortified to see this and looked at me with suspicion, before I reassured her soul that I was not merely seeking a trip into the forbidden fruit of exotica – as black people were often described in days gone past. My dear wife also went through the ‘is he only sleeping with me as an experiment’ phase – a feeling that I reckon most black and Asian women go through, when seeking happiness elsewhere.
I mentioned earlier the depressing tone of the book, and I would like to think things have improved since the lifetime tales recounted within its pages – with the experiences of my children a stark contrast to the stories of misery and abuse that flow easily from within the Good Immigrant.
That said, the Salena Godden chapter also contained a thread of optimism, with her mixed-race background, her 'otherness', showing itself in many ways, not least when she describes how she survives by aligning herself with those deemed outside the social 'norm' - including punk rockers!
There were a few areas that could have done with more investigation; for example I would have liked to have read more about the racism given out to black Africans by other communities, as my wife has only ever been called a monkey by black people – a subject that is normally ignored by left-leaning ‘liberal’ authors.
To add to this I should mention that our son was recently on the Question Time TV show, where he had the effrontery to say ‘I like him, he’s nice’ when questioned on the suitability of Donald Trump as president. Immediately he was booed by the audience for expressing his earnest opinion. However, what was worse was the feedback he had on Twitter, with him being called an ‘Oreo’, a ‘Nazi’ and a ‘race-traitor’. And all because he had the nerve to go against the mainstream. His rather large Afro also attracted many derogatory comments. Interestingly enough, it was the lefty/liberal types who were the first in the queue with the racist comments.
Anyhow, overall it is a good book, but one that seems to represent times long past, although doubtless some will think that my interpretation of that is down to my ‘white privilege’, as my wife often calls it.
Thanks for reading my review/monologue and I am happy to debate any of the points made within.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 August 2018
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“For people of colour, race is in everything we do. Because the universal experience is white.”

This collection of 21 ‘unapologetic’ essays challenge the dominant of the ‘white’ universal experience, instead presenting the ‘universal experiences’ of U.K. BAME people including actors, journalists, novelists, teachers and poets. These, mostly personal, pieces range across fashion and self-expression, family histories and education to the pitfalls of going through airport security.

Miss L’s drama tutor tells her the ideal role for her is ‘wife of a terrorist; in one of the most poignant pieces Darren Chatty talks about doing creative writing exercises with BAME children, who needed permission to put characters that look like them into their own stories; Coco Khan spends the night with someone only to wake up to a room decorated with Union Jacks. The accounts here range from funny to near-tragic, and some are more successful than others, but all raise important questions about identity and belonging. As one reviewer said, ‘If you find these (stories) shocking, it’s probably because you’re white, like me, and don’t have to live with this every day of the week.’ His conclusion was ‘I’d push a copy of this through every front door in Britain.’ Obviously, that’s not going to happen so let’s just hope as many people as possible buy this and read it anyway.

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Thought provoking and important
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 July 2017
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A wonderful, thought provoking collection of essays by an eclectic group of BAME writers, exploring what it means to be Other in the United Kingdom (and sometimes America). It opens with Nikesh Shukla looking the importance of language through the lens of his own experience. His stories are at once hilarious and infuriating, from the ridiculous restaurant serving chicken pants to drunk people and yoga plonks repeating "Namaste" at him in the street. The stupidity and racism and cultural (mis)appropriation is astounding, but then it's absolutely everywhere so why should we the readers be surprised? We should most certainly be angry, but perhaps not so surprised.

The book continues as a compilation of essays and reflections, all on connected themes, but each from totally unique perspectives. They are students, actors, poets, journalists, a comedian and an educator. They come from many walks of life and they have such important stories to tell.

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Reviewed in Mexico on 6 April 2017
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i waited for this book for ages, and when i finally got it i realized pretty soon that it would be better to read a single essay each day. the deeply personal, poignant, exhilarating stories stay with you.

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Excellent insight of life
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I will recommend this book to all those who are interested in knowing how in this globalised world where so much information is at the reach of our fingertips, there are still so many stories to learn about questions related with the sense of belonging, home and the stereotypes assumtions that many migrants, or first or second generations of immigrants have to face. It brings a new way of publishing into life and provides a great platform for diversity of voices to be heard.

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Relatable, much needed perspectives
Reviewed in Italy on 19 June 2017
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Written in the context / aftermath of Brexit, this is an excellent collection of short stories on everyday experiences of first/second generation immigrants to the UK - some stories were better than others. Some may complain that most stories are negative - but, thats the point! You don't ever escape your skin colour and the stereotypes attached to it. Highly recommend!

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Reviewed in France on 23 May 2019
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Un livre que tout le monde devrait lire! Certains des témoignages toucheront plus que d'autres selon les goûts de chacun et la plume de chaque auteur mais tous méritent d’être lu.

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