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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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- Publicado en
- 2020
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- Título
- Shame on Me
- Subtítulo
- An Anatomy of Race and Belonging
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Tessa McWatt
- Editorial
- Random House of Canada
- Publicado en
- 2020
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 240
- ISBN13
- 9780735277434
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- No ficción, Historias reales, Biografías, Autobiografías y memorias, Periodismo & Ensayos, Canadá, Raza, Racismo
- Calificación
- 4,1 de 5
- Descripción
- ''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