Title:
Color me English : migration and belonging before and after 9/11
Author:
Publication Date:
2011
Publication Information:
New York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, c2011.
Physical Description:
339 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:
9781595588357
9781595586506
Abstract:
A collection of the author's observations on race, culture, and belonging before and after the September 11 attacks discusses his childhood memories of a Muslim fellow student and his international research into colonial histories.
Contents:
Color Me English -- Homeland Security -- Ground Zero -- American Tribalism -- "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses" -- American Stories, American Silence -- American Dispatches -- Colored People -- Men at Sea: African American Sailors -- Literature: The New Jazz? -- Warren Beatty's Bulworth -- "O": All alone in Charleston -- Luther Vandross (1951-2005) -- Strange Fruit -- Growing Pains -- A Life in Ten Chapters -- 1978 -- Northern Soul -- Necessary Journeys -- "Rude am I in my speech" -- Overtures -- E. R. Braithwaite -- John La Rose -- Claude McKay -- Beginners -- Water -- Blood -- Fire -- Outside In -- Belonging to Israel -- Chinua Achebe: Out of Africa -- Shausaku Endo: Confessions of a True Believer -- England, Half English -- The Pleasures of Exile -- A Familial Conversation -- James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket -- Ha Jin: Exile on Main Street -- Lafcadio Hearn: The Wanderer -- Distant shores -- France: Strangers in a Strange Land -- Sierra Leone: Distant Voices -- Ghana: Border Crossings -- Belgium: The Silenced Minority -- Kilimanjaro: The Height of Obsession -- Sierra Leone: Bunce Island.
Personal Subject:
Language:
English
