β Scribed by Sharmila Sen
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
"Captivating... [a] heartfelt account of how newcomers carve a space for themselves in the melting pot of America."
-- Publishers Weekly
A first-generation immigrant's "intimate, passionate look at race in America" (Viet Thanh Nguyen), an American's journey into the heart of not-whiteness.
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...
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