Book review: That was then, this is now in mingling of the personal and the polemical

Westerners dismiss their ancestors, individually and en masse, as 'racists, thieves, and murderers', but this brown-skinned woman from North Africa has come to tell whitey to get over himself

Marie Kawthar Daouda: Born and raised in Morocco, moved to France in her late teens to study, and then left for England.

• Not Your Victim: How Our Obsession with Race Entraps and Divides Us 
• Marie Kawthar Daouda 
• Polity, hb €24