I am black and i don't like cassava

I am black and I don't like cassava was a real literary sensation when it was published in 2004. It sold over 100,000 copies in hardback and 200,000 in paperback. Hundreds of readers queued up to have this essay signed.

Twenty years later, Gaston Kelman and his daughter Frida (the heroine of the first book) revisit the condition of Black people in France. I am Black and I still don't like cassava is an autobiographical and sociological essay in which the authors explore the complex realities of Black identity in France.

Using everyday situations as a starting point, they dismantle prejudices, self-righteousness, and above all, the internal contradictions of a deeply “racialist” society. Gaston Kelman and his daughter assert their plural identity: being Black, French, Burgundian, executives, and citizens, without being eternally referred back to Africa