256 pages ISBN: 2-914388-60-8 Summary 'I don’t wake up every morning to the sound of drums. I don’t wake up with spittle on my face as my colonised father did. Nor do I awake bruised by the beatings endured by the ancestors of Black people in America or the West Indies. I want to stop being a Black man. I just want to be a man.' Gaston Kelman In his second essay, the author strikes even harder and more explicitly, with a colourful eloquence that we have come to enjoy. While his first work, I am Black and I don’t like Manioc, has drawn considerable attention from the national and international press, it has also exposed the violence and strong emotions hidden behind debates on ethnic minorities in France. With humour, Kelman has already described why he felt more French than African. Beyond Black and White picks up where the first novel left off and brings it full circle. A work motivated by the strength of experience, following the trail of some of the world's greatest Black writers, especially Frantz Fanon. 'With humour and conviction, Kelman debunks the racial clichés inherited from colonial times as well as the myth of victimisations.' Newsweek Gaston Kelman's books have earned him international critical acclaim - Le Monde, The New York Times, the Herald Tribune, L'Express, etc. Upon the realease of Beyond Black and White, the author took part to many prominent TV programs in France.
