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Not sure why the only South Asian example seems to be about us marrying doctors. While I'm sure that book is great, these optics are terrible. Perhaps someone can add #NotQuiteNotWhite by @_sen_sharmila, or the many works by Jhumpa Lahiri or others.
Twelve Most Read Pieces of 2020 @LAReviewofBooks includes a review of #NotQuiteNotWhite!
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Rapid fire Q&A on the day after #ElectionDay! What was I thinking? But, hey, let’s do it. Let’s Zoom and talk!
@PenguinBooks #NotQuiteNotWhite
You're invited to our Social Justice Book Club on Wed 11/4 at 7pm - featuring @_sen_sharmila - author of "Not Quite Not White" - for a rapid fire 1/2 hour Q&A! You are welcome to join, even if you have not read the book yet!
Pls reg: https://t.co/a5TQjKNBbZ
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The death of #GeorgeFlyod has focused the spotlight on systemic racism in America. Racism is not restricted to just African Americans, but all who are not White.
Good time to read @_sen_sharmila’s book #NotQuiteNotWhite
Highly recommended by many, including @viet_t_nguyen
Reviewing words on the page is a beautiful craft. Reading the silences so well is an art. Thank you.
#NotQuiteNotWhite @PenguinBooks
. @_sen_sharmila “is after a thornier matter: the dynamics of ‘losing and finding #race in America.’She provides an intimate and often discomfiting look at her dawning racial self-consciousness and her struggle to make sense of it.”-Ayesha Ramachandran https://t.co/jWtvMFHoNc
“shot through with both postcolonial and critical race theory, #NotQuiteNotWhite is a difficult and necessary book ... reading #NotQuiteNotWhite was like looking at myself in a cracked funhouse mirror.”
@PenguinBooks @LAReviewofBooks https://t.co/1JYAtqgr8i
Finished a phone chat w/ a Seattle book club that read #NotQuiteNotWhite this month. They asked abt the book’s origin story. Told them how lucky I’m to have @Inkwellmgmt, @PenguinBooks, & @rotorheadnyc who let me leave the car burning on the highway, & walk away w/ a grin.
Thank you @PenguinIndia and @MeruGokhale for all your suppprt. #NotQuiteNotWhite is back @JaipurLitFest. 💛
On her birthday, a shoutout to my brilliant editor @_sen_sharmila - grateful for her finding me & having a better understanding of my work than I did! Read her powerful and necessary memoir on race in America #notquitenotwhite
My brilliant, beautiful friend —
“I wanted readers...to think about the ways in which we make whiteness a kind of Greenwich Mean Time.”
Read #NotQuiteNotWhite by @_sen_sharmila @penguinusa
“It’s a story of a young girl who comes to America in the early 1980s and, among many other things, discovers something called race.” @_sen_sharmila on her debut memoir, Not Quite Not White @penguinusa #ClipOfTheDay https://t.co/MGFTy9dWfB
+ “Anger is a shrill woman. Anger is a jihadi. Because we know this, many of us also hide our anger behind elaborate masks of comedy.” @_sen_sharmila in #NotQuiteNotWhite, a book that every immigrant to America, and Canada, should read, as should Americans.
“When an Englishman went native in India in the eighteenth century he was disguising himself as someone who was not white. The power that Englishman derived from the disguise lay in the fact that he was ‘not quite’ not white.” - @_sen_sharmila in #NotQuiteNotWhite Read It!
“Cinema was the great window to the world beyond Calcutta. Metro, Globe, Roxy, Lighthouse, New Empire, Menaka. The names of these cinema halls promised three hours of air conditioned thrills, comedy, tragedy and more importantly travel.” - @_sen_sharmila in #NotQuiteNotWhite
“White people’s food seemed to come in three colours—green,red, and white. Salads were green. Salads were also new to us. Though we ate a wide variety of vegetables in Calcutta, raw vegetables were rarely served as anything but garnish.” - @_sen_sharmila #NotQuiteNotWhite
“E.M. Forster once wrote that the English in India ate the food of exiles cooked by natives who did not understand it. We, a newly arrived immigrant family, ate what we thought was the food of Americans and cooked without understanding it.” - @_sen_sharmila in #NotQuiteNotWhite
“India, as recorded History tells us was producing refined sugar before Alexander The Great arrived in Punjab in the fourth century BCE.” - @_sen_sharmila from her book #NotQuiteNotWhite, one of my favourite books, that I read over and over.
Always good to see at least one copy of #NotQuiteNotWhite by @_sen_sharmila in the smaller locations of @chaptersindigo in Canada.
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