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Not quite not white : losing and finding race in America
- Title
- Not quite not white : losing and finding race in America / Sharmila Sen.
- Author
- Sen, Sharmila,
- Publication
- New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2018]
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- xxvii, 191 pages; 20 cm
- 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?
- Subjects
- Group identity
- Racism
- United States
- Group identity > United States
- History
- South Asian Americans > Social conditions
- Racism > United States
- Race relations
- Biography
- South Asian Americans > History
- Biographies
- South Asian Americans > Biography
- United States > Race relations
- SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General
- South Asian Americans > Ethnic identity
- Sen, Sharmila
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- History.
- Contents
- The mask that grins -- Enter the dragon -- The first remove -- The autobiography of an ex-Indian woman -- Heart of not whiteness.
- Call Number
- JFD 18-4668
- ISBN
- 9780143131380
- 0143131389
- LCCN
- 2017031011
- Author
- Sen, Sharmila, author.
- Title
- Not quite not white : losing and finding race in America / Sharmila Sen.
- Publisher
- New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Online version: Sen, Sharmila. Not quite not white. New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2018 9781524705121 (DLC) 2017032252 (OCoLC)992798802
- Research Call Number
- JFD 18-4668