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Brown

✍ Scribed by Kamal Al-Solaylee


Publisher
HarperCollins Canada
Year
2016
Tongue
English
Weight
204 KB
Category
Fiction

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


Winner of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing

Finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-fiction and the Trillium Book Award

A Globe and Mail, National Post**, Toronto Life****, Walrus****, CBC Books, Chatelaine****, Hill Times****, 49th Shelf and Writers' Trust Best Book of the Year**

With the urgency and passion of Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me), the seductive storytelling of J.D. Vance (Hillbilly Elegy) and the historical rigour of Carol Anderson (White Rage), Kamal Al-Solaylee explores the in-between space that brown people occupy in today's world: on the cusp of whiteness and the edge of blackness. Brown proposes a cohesive racial identity and politics for the millions of people from the Global South and provides a timely context for the frictions and anxieties around immigration...


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