Shame on Me

An Anatomy of Race and Belonging

Auteurs

• Tessa McWatt

Paramètres

• 240 pages
• 9 heures de lecture

• Autobiographies et mémoires
• Biographies et réflexions
• Canada
• Essais
• Nonfiction

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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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• Année de publication: 2020
• Reliure: (souple)