{"product_id":"not-quite-not-white","title":"Not Quite Not White","description":"\u003csection class=\"overview\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAt 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 \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGeneral Hospital \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Jeffersons\u003c\/em\u003e, dancing to Duran Duran and Prince, and perfecting the art of Jell-O no-bake desserts–she is forced to reckon with the hard questions: What does it mean to be white, why does whiteness retain the magic cloak of invisibility while other colors are made hypervisible, and how much does whiteness figure into Americanness?\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePart memoir, part manifesto, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNot Quite Not White\u003c\/em\u003e is a searing appraisal of race and a path forward for the next not quite not white generation –a witty and sharply honest story of discovering that not-whiteness can be the very thing that makes us American.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e Published: US, 2018\u003cbr\u003e Publisher: Penguin\u003cbr\u003e Pages: 224\u003cbr\u003e Language: English\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 13: \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9780143131380\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 10: 0143131389\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"more-link-wrap opened\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Sharmila Sen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44160447971594,"sku":"","price":16.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/products\/9780143131380.jpg?v=1674127651","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/not-quite-not-white","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}