Not quite not white : losing and finding race in America
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Published
New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2018].
Format
Book
ISBN
9780143131380, 0143131389
Status
Springfield Main Library - Adult
305.800973 SEN
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305.800973 SEN
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Springfield Main Library - Adult | 305.800973 SEN | Available |
Location | Call Number | Status |
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Amherst Jones Library - Lower Level | 305.8009 SEN | Available |
East Longmeadow Public Library - Second Floor | 305.8 SEN | Available |
Great Barrington Mason Library - Adult Nonfiction | 305.8 SEN, SHARMILA | Available |
Hopkinton Public Library - Adult | 305.8 SEN | Available |
Ludlow Hubbard Memorial Library - Adult Stacks | 305.800973 SEN | Available |
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Published
New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2018].
Physical Desc
xxvii, 191 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780143131380, 0143131389
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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?
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