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Author Sen, Sharmila, author.

Title Not quite not white : losing and finding race in America / Sharmila Sen.

Publication Info. New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2018]
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 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  305.8 SEN    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  305.8 SEN    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Basement Materials  305.8 SEN    Check Shelf
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Description xxvii, 191 pages ; 20 cm
Contents The mask that grins -- Enter the dragon -- The first remove -- The autobiography of an ex-Indian woman -- Heart of not whiteness.
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?
Subject 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. (OCoLC)fst00948442
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
Racism. (OCoLC)fst01086616
South Asian Americans. (OCoLC)fst01127234
South Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity. (OCoLC)fst01983688
South Asian Americans -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01983687
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Biographies.
Other Form: 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)
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