TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sen,Sharmila
TI  - Not quite not white: losing and finding race in America 
SN  - 9780143131380
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Sen, Sharmila.
KW  - South Asian Americans
KW  - Biography
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Ethnic identity
KW  - History
KW  - Racism
KW  - United States
KW  - Group identity
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - The mask that grins -- Enter the dragon -- The first remove -- The autobiography of an ex-Indian woman -- Heart of not whiteness
N2  - 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 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?
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