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Author:
Sen, Sharmila, author.
Title:
Not quite not white : losing and finding race in America / Sharmila Sen.
Publisher:
Penguin Books,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
xxvii, 191 pages ; 20 cm
Subject:
Sen, Sharmila.
South Asian Americans--Biography.
South Asian Americans--Social conditions.
South Asian Americans--Ethnic identity.
South Asian Americans--History.
Racism--United States.
Group identity--United States.
United States--Race relations.
Autobiographies.
Summary:
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?
ISBN:
0143131389
9780143131380
OCLC:
(OCoLC)992798620
LCCN:
2017031011
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)
UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)
BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)
JMPC081 -- Madrid Public Library (Madrid)
BVPE851 -- Nevada Public Library (Nevada)

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