A dazzling History of Africans in Europe, masterfully ( Smithsonian ) revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe.
African Europeans is a landmark celebration of this integral, vibrantly complex slice of European history, and will redefine the field for years to come..
She gives equal attention to the most prominent figures--like Alessandro de Medici, the first duke of Florence thought to have been born to a free African woman in a Roman village--and the Untold stories--like the lives of dual-heritage families in Europe\'s coastal trading towns.
From the third century, when the Egyptian Saint Maurice became the leader of a Roman legion, all the way up to the present, Otele explores encounters between those defined as Africans and those called Europeans.
But in African Europeans , renowned historian Olivette Otele debunks this and uncovers a long History of Europeans of African descent.
A dazzling History of Africans in Europe, masterfully ( Smithsonian ) revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe
