‘Brought up in south London “at a time when we were really only the black people on the street”, Asante was confronted with social complexity from an early age. “We were economically slightly different to the other families on the street, but also racially different,” she recalls. “The national front had their headquarters on the corner of the street, so it was a strange place to grow up, with graffiti on our walls and people putting matches through our letter box.”’
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