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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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- Année de publication
- 2020
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- Titre
- Shame on Me
- Sous-titre
- An Anatomy of Race and Belonging
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Tessa McWatt
- Éditeur
- Random House of Canada
- Publié
- 2020
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 240
- ISBN13
- 9780735277434
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Histoires vraies, Biographies, Autobiographies et mémoires, Presse d'opinion & Essais, Canada, Race, Racisme
- Évaluation
- 4,1 sur 5
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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