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Descripción

xxvii, 191 pages ; 20 cm

Contenido

The mask that grins -- Enter the dragon -- The first remove -- The autobiography of an ex-Indian woman -- Heart of not whiteness.

Sumario

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?

Materia

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.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.

Group identity.

Race relations.

Racism.

South Asian Americans.

South Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity.

South Asian Americans -- Social conditions.

United States.

Género/Forma

Biography.

History.

Biographies.

Otro formato:

Online version: Sen, Sharmila. Not quite not white. New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2018 9781524705121 (DLC) 2017032252 (OCoLC)992798802

ISBN

9780143131380 (paperback)

0143131389 (paperback)

9781524705121 (ebook)