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03041aam a2200421 i 4500 001 DCF89D26EDAA11EA9A34A78C36ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20200903010031 008 190728t20202019onca b 000 0aeng 010 $a 2019394434 020 $a 0735277435 020 $a 9780735277434 035 $a (OCoLC)1110437013 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d NLC $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCL $d VP@ $d DLC $d DPL $d CMI $d YDX $d PAU $d SILO 042 $a lac 043 $a n-cn--- 050 4 $a HT1523 M39 2020 100 1 $a McWatt, Tessa, $e author. 245 10 $a Shame on me : $b an anatomy of race and belonging / $c Tessa McWatt. 264 1 $a Toronto : $b Random House Canada, $c [2020] 300 $a 230 pages ; $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "Tessa McWatt has been called Susie Wong, Pocahontas, and "black bitch," and has been judged not black enough by people who assume she straightens her hair. Now, through a close examination of her own body--nose, lips, hair, skin, eyes, ass, bones, and blood--which holds up a mirror to the way culture reads all bodies, she asks why we persist in thinking in terms of race today when racism is killing us. Her grandmother's family fled southern China for British Guiana after her great uncle was shot in his own dentist's chair during the First Sino-Japanese War. McWatt is made of this woman and more: those who arrived in British Guiana from India as indentured labour and those who were brought from Africa as cargo to work on the sugar plantations; colonists and those whom colonialism displaced. How do you tick a box on a census form or job application when your ancestry is Scottish, English, French, Portuguese, Indian, Amerindian, African, and Chinese? How do you finally answer a question first posed to you in grade school: "What are you?" And where do you find a sense of belonging in a supposedly "post-racial" world where shadism, fear of blackness, identity politics, and call-out culture vie with each other noisily, relentlessly, and still lethally? Shame on Me is a personal and powerful exploration of history and identity, colour and desire from a writer who, having been plagued with confusion about her race all her life, has at last found kinship and solidarity in story."-- $c Provided by publisher. 530 $a Issued also in electronic format. 600 10 $a McWatt, Tessa. 650 0 $a Racially mixed people $x Race identity. 650 0 $a Racism. 650 0 $a Race discrimination. 650 0 $a Post-racialism. 650 0 $a Race awareness. 650 0 $a Human skin color $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Racially mixed people $z Canada $v Biography. 600 17 $a McWatt, Tessa. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01557173 776 08 $i Online version: $a McWatt, Tessa. $t Shame on me. $d Toronto : Random House Canada, 2020 $z 9780735277441 $z 9780735277441 $w (OCoLC)1110618286 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240403011640.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DCF89D26EDAA11EA9A34A78C36ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search