![]() ![]() ![]() In particular, a learning which stuck out to me: France deployed Senegalese people from their colonies to guard and protect the Rhineland (a fact which surprised me so immensely as we studied this event at great length in school). I think this speaks to a wider erasure of Black people from history, and so I was glad to read and learn more about this. I studied WWII history to Advanced Higher in school (like first year of University), have visited many historic sights across mainland Europe, and never expressly heard about the experiences of Black people. ![]() In this sense, Half Blook Blues is exceptional and worth reading for this aspect alone. I've not read any other accounts of WWII fiction (and goodness knows there's a lot of it) which focuses on imagining what was like to be a Black person during this period in history. Half Blood Blues tells the story of a group of Jazz musicians, many of whom are Black (though some white and some white-passing), who lived through WWII in France and Germany. I've been eager to read this since finishing Washington Black by Esi Edugyan last year. ![]()
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