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Cargando... Not Quite Not White: Losing and Finding Race in Americapor Sharmila Sen
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Sen's experience of moving to America reminded me a lot of my own: her family found themselves in a lower socioeconomic status than where they came from, she found herself unconsciously trying to assimilate by assuming a "white" affect, and it was not until she was an adult that she realized the compromises she was making – and discovered her own prejudices – and began the work of decolonizing herself. A fascinating, tough, and self-critical memoir. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
At the age of 12, Sharmila Sen emigrated from India to the U.S. The year was 1982, and everywhere she turned, she was asked to self-report her race: on INS forms, at the doctor's office, in middle school. Never identifying with a race in the India of her childhood, she rejects her new "not quite" designation: not quite white, not quite black, not quite Asian, and spends much of her life attempting to blend into American whiteness. But after her teen years trying to assimilate, watching shows like General Hospital and The Jeffersons, dancing to Duran Duran and Prince, and perfecting the art of Jell-O no-bake desserts, she is forced to reckon with the hard questions: What does it mean to be white, why does whiteness retain the magic cloak of invisibility while other colors are made hypervisible, and how much does whiteness figure into Americanness? No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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