Darren Chetty, Education PhD student and former primary school teacher, opened the evening with the question of how he, Vera Chok and Coco Khan had become involved with The Good Immigrant.
The absence of an external chair on the panel was refreshing and enabled an immediate sense of ease. Three of these contributors spoke as part of the Cambridge Literary Festival 2017 and their presence created an evening of rich, energising and unapologetically direct conversation. The Good Immigrant’s contributors provide me with reassurance that all voices and ambitions are valuable. From authors to actors, the contributors’ biographies provide vital examples of people of colour thriving in numerous fields. The Good Immigrant is a much-needed antithesis to the longstanding, insidious rhetoric surrounding ‘immigrant’ that the Leave campaign so keenly capitalised on.
Edited by author Nikesh Shukla, the book is an anthology of twenty-one voices exploring what it means to be black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) in Britain today. The Good Immigrant was published three weeks after the EU referendum, amid continuing Brexiteer victory dances.
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