Gary Younge

BY THE WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR JOURNALISM 2023*Includes additional material* A powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and black life and death from one of the nations leading political voices.Outstanding. BERNARDINE EVARISTOSharp and grounded.NEW STATESMANCompelling.TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENTTimeless.AFUA HIRSCHHumane.JOHN LEGENDImpressive.JEREMY CORBYNFor the last three decades, Gary Younge has sat ringside with the most significant personalities to impact the black diaspora and been on the frontline of historic events. He has witnessed the possibilities of change and the power of systems to thwart those aspirations. Dispatches from the Diaspora is an unrivalled body of work from a unique perspective that compels you to imagine a world in which you might thrive, for which there is no evidence. And then fight for it.

BY THE WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR JOURNALISM 2023 A powerful collection of journalism on race racism and black life and death from one of the nation s leading political voices An outstanding journalist and chronicler BERNARDINE EVARISTO Sharp and grounded NEW STATESMAN Tells our story with clarity and elegance JOHN LEGEND Every citizen should have a copy LEMN SISSAY In short it is a public service NESRINE MALIK For the last three decades Gary Younge has sat ringside during the biggest events and with the most significant personalities to impact the black diaspora witnessing the possibility of change and the power of systems to thwart those aspirations Dispatches from the Diaspora is an unrivalled body of work that takes you to the frontlines and compels you to imagine a world in which you might thrive for which there is no evidence And then fight for it

Responsible but not beholden; substantial as well as symbolic; sympathetic but not pandering; political but not proscriptive: theres not an awful lot of wiggle room there, but its the space in which I feel I need to both operate and expand.In this incisive, moving and personal essay, one of the nations leading political voices, explores the burden of representation.Gary Younge analyses the pressures exerted upon the relatively small group of people from underrepresented communities, who break through into elite spaces and the expectations that may come from above, below, within and outwith, from those with power and those without. These are issues that have framed, frustrated, inspired, and inflected his entire working life as a writer.Younge offers reflections on how to navigate representation, power and responsibility while keeping your job, your sanity and your freedom both as a human being and as a writer.

BY THE WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR JOURNALISM 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE, THE JHALAK PRIZE, THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION AND THE BREAD AND ROSES AWARDSaturday, 23rd November 2013. It was just another day in America. And as befits an unremarkable day, ten children and teens were killed by gunfire. Far from being considered newsworthy, these everyday fatalities are simply a banal fact.The youngest was nine; the oldest nineteen. None made the news. There was no outrage at their passing. It was simply a day like any other day. Gary Younge picked it at random, searched for the families of these children and here, tells their stories. Another Day in the Death of America explores the way these children lived and lost their short lives, offering a searing portrait of the vulnerability of youth in contemporary America.

Winner of the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas PrizeShortlisted for the 2017 Hurston/Wright Foundation AwardFinalist for the 2017 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismLonglisted for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non Fiction On an average day in America, seven children and teens will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during one such day. It could have been any day, but he chose November 23, 2013. Black, white, and Latino, aged nine to nineteen, they fell at sleepovers, on street corners, in stairwells, and on their own doorsteps. From the rural Midwest to the barrios of Texas, the narrative crisscrosses the country over a period of twenty-four hours to reveal the full human stories behind the gun-violence statistics and the brief mentions in local papers of lives lost. This powerful and moving work puts a human face-a childs face-on the "collateral damage" of gun deaths across the country. This is not a book about gun control, but about what happens in a country where it does not exist. What emerges in these pages is a searing and urgent portrait of youth, family, and firearms in America today.

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Chaque jour, ce sont près de sept enfants ou adolescents qui meurent par balle aux États-Unis. Cette statistique glaçante ne peut rendre compte à elle seule des vies détruites par les armes à feu, Ga

*WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION*Deals intensely and critically with urgent questions facing a globalised worldThe TimesThe way we think and live, who we vote for and who we fear, has become ever more dictated by our personal identity.In his ground-breaking book, Gary Younge argues that we have recoiled into refuges of race or class, religion or national identity to survive in a state seemingly indifferent to our lives. Ranging from his Stevenage childhood to present day America, from the borders of Europe to division in South Africa, Younge explores the issues that bind the powerful elite and the poor immigrant, the fundamentalist and the conservative. In this powerful dissection of modern society Gary Younge challenges us not to succumb to what divides us, but through solidarity to search for a common - and higher - ground.With brilliant clarity, Gary Younge carefully guides us through a political minefield Andrea LevyAn indispensable guide to identity in politics, and a terrific read Margaret AtwoodAn absorbing and thoughtful discussion of identityFinancial Times

El 23 de noviembre de 2013 murieron diez adolescentes por arma de fuego en Estados Unidos. El más pequeño tenía nueve años; el mayor, diecinueve. Esta cifra, que en muchos otros países habría parecido desorbitada, paso sin apenas atencion entre las noticias de la prensa estadounidense. Como suele ocurrir con las cosas rutinarias. El periodista Gary Younge, entonces corresponsal de The Guardian, se propuso recatar del olvido los nombres y las historias de aquellos diez muchachos. Para ello, recorrio el pais de arriba abajo, entrevisto a los familiares y amigos de las victimas y describio las circunstancias en las que ocurrieron estas tragedias. Con este libro, Younge dibuja un fresco preciso y profundamente humano de la segregacion social y racial en el pais.