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Shame on Me

An Anatomy of Race and Belonging

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''Interrogating our ideas of race through the lens of her own multi-racial identity, critically acclaimed novelist Tessa McWatt turns her eye on herself, her body and this world in a powerful new work of non-fiction.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...''--Site de l'éditeur

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Shame on Me, Tessa McWatt

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Rok vydání
2020
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4,1
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486 Hodnocení

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Podtitul
An Anatomy of Race and Belonging
Jazyk
anglicky
Rok vydání
2020
Vazba
měkká
Počet stran
240
ISBN13
9780735277434
Série
Hodnocení
4,1 z 5
Anotace
''Interrogating our ideas of race through the lens of her own multi-racial identity, critically acclaimed novelist Tessa McWatt turns her eye on herself, her body and this world in a powerful new work of non-fiction.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...''--Site de l'éditeur