Since walking out of the continent now known
as Africa, modern man has regularly packed
his bags and moved on. Such journeys into the
unknown often require a leap of faith. This is
the case for many of the subjects interviewed in
Aisha Dunbar’s Worlds Apart, a group of people
who underwent the immigrant experience in the
1970s. As they recall the cultural and language
barriers they once had to face, they all speak of
the need to believe that life will get better. In the
first chapter, Dunbar herself provides a first-hand
account of being on the receiving end of racism
and the strategies she employed to deal with those
who abused her, and cites this as her incentive for
assembling this collection of other voices. Worlds
Apart is, admittedly, a slightly sentimental book,
particularly in the narrative thread that connects
each person’s story, but the anecdotes they tell are
often genuinely humorous and upliftingp4
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Corrected Textmore↓Since walking out of the continent now known
as Africa, modern man has regularly packed
his bags and moved on. Such journeys into the
unknown often require a leap of faith. This is
the case for many of the subjects interviewed in
Aisha Dunbar’s Worlds Apart, a group of people
who underwent the immigrant experience in the
1970s. As they recall the cultural and language
barriers they once had to face, they all speak of
the need to believe that life will get better. In the
first chapter Dunbar herself provides a first-hand
account of being on the receiving end of racism
and the strategies she employed to deal with those
who abused her. She cites this as her incentive for
assembling this collection of other voices. Worlds
Apart is, admittedly, a slightly sentimental book -
particularly in the narrative thread that connects
each person’s story- but the anecdotes they tell are
often genuinely humorous and uplifting.
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