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02420aam a22004574i 4500 001 262BA46CACE311E8BF0AC41597128E48 003 SILO 005 20180831010021 008 170630t20182018nyu 000 0aeng 010 $a 2017031011 020 $a 0143131389 020 $a 9780143131380 035 $a (OCoLC)992798620 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d TOH $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d JNE $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E184.S69 $b S46 2018 082 00 $a 305.800973 $2 23 100 1 $a Sen, Sharmila, $e author. 245 10 $a Not quite not white : $b losing and finding race in America / $c Sharmila Sen. 264 1 $a New York, New York : $b Penguin Books, $c [2018] 300 $a xxvii, 191 pages ; $c 20 cm 520 $a 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? 600 10 $a Sen, Sharmila. 650 0 $a South Asian Americans $v Biography. 650 0 $a South Asian Americans $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a South Asian Americans $x Ethnic identity. 650 0 $a South Asian Americans $x History. 650 0 $a Racism $z United States. 650 0 $a Group identity $z United States. 651 0 $a United States $x Race relations. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 6 952 $l BVPE851 $d 20220728020451.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20201103015631.0 952 $l JMPC081 $d 20200617010217.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20190129010536.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006121606.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20180831010208.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=262BA46CACE311E8BF0AC41597128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search