When Sen emigrated from India to the U.S. in at the age of 12, she was asked to "self-report" her race. Never identifying with a race previously, she rejects her new "not quite white" designation, and spends much of her life attempting to become "white" in the American sense/5. · A first-generation immigrant's "intimate, passionate look at race in America" (Viet Thanh Nguyen), an American's journey into the heart of not-whiteness. At the age of 12, Sharmila Sen emigrated from India to the www.doorway.ru “Sharmila Sen’s new book is not quite memoir and not quite manifesto. It’s rife with interests of the in-between, exploring race and assimilation in the United States and journeys into the many contradictions at the heart of non-whiteness/5(31).
The year was , and everywhere she turned, she was asked to self-report her race. Rejecting her new 'not quite' designation-not quite white, not quite black, not quite Asian-she spent much of her life attempting to blend into American whiteness. Unlike Henry Ford, who was okay with all colours for his car as long as it was black, many think race in America is quite like that sentence—just substitute black with white. It isn't. It isn't. Not Quite Not White by Sharmila Sen, , Not Quite Not White: Losing and Finding Race in America. ( ratings by Goodreads) Paperback; passionate look at race in America, Sen considers the price paid by nonwhite immigrants who try to become white, while always wearing a smiling face.
Although the book is subtitled Losing and Finding Race in America, Sen is emphatic that race is something she didn’t have in India and was assigned only in America. Not Quite Not White: Losing and Finding Race in America (Penguin Books, $16) retraces that journey, its comic scenes from girlhood—studying Hawaii Five-O, whipping up no-bake Jell-O desserts every day—cut with wry observation. Part memoir, part manifesto, Not Quite Not White is a searing appraisal of race and a path forward for the next not quite not white generation –a witty and sharply honest story of discovering that not-whiteness can be the very thing that makes us American. Read An Excerpt. Read An Excerpt. About Sharmila Sen.
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