num_pages: 231
description: A Trinidadian-American writer and activist explores motherhood migration and identityand how it relates to land imprisonment and genocide for Black and Indigenous peoples.Having moved to Copenhagen Denmark from Brooklyn over 18 years ago Brown attempts to contextualize her and her sons existence in a post-colonial and supposedly post-racial world where the very machine of so-called progress has been premised upon the demise of her lineage. Through letters to her son Brown writes the past into the presentpenned from the country that has been declared The Happiest Place in the Worldcreating a vision that is a necessary alternative to the dystopian one currently being bought and sold.
language: English
title: Decolonial Daughter: Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son
publisher: Repeater