Nikesh Shukla
Hardcover | Pages: 272 pages Rating: 4.32 | 6594 Users | 730 Reviews
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| ISBN: | 178352295X (ISBN13: 9781783522958) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards for Readers' Choice Award (2016) |
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How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport?Or be told that, as an actress, the part you’re most fitted to play is ‘wife of a terrorist’? How does it feel to have words from your native language misused, misappropriated and used aggressively towards you? How does it feel to hear a child of colour say in a classroom that stories can only be about white people? How does it feel to go ‘home’ to India when your home is really London? What is it like to feel you always have to be an ambassador for your race? How does it feel to always tick ‘Other’?
Bringing together 21 exciting black, Asian and minority ethnic voices emerging in Britain today, The Good Immigrant explores why immigrants come to the UK, why they stay and what it means to be ‘other’ in a country that doesn’t seem to want you, doesn’t truly accept you – however many generations you’ve been here – but still needs you for its diversity monitoring forms.
Inspired by discussion around why society appears to deem people of colour as bad immigrants – job stealers, benefit scroungers, undeserving refugees – until, by winning Olympic races or baking good cakes, or being conscientious doctors, they cross over and become good immigrants, editor Nikesh Shukla has compiled a collection of essays that are poignant, challenging, angry, humorous, heartbreaking, polemic, weary and – most importantly – real.
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| Title | : | The Good Immigrant |
| Author | : | Nikesh Shukla |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 272 pages |
| Published | : | September 22nd 2016 by Unbound |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Writing. Essays. Politics. Race. Short Stories. Autobiography. Memoir. Sociology |
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Ratings: 4.32 From 6594 Users | 730 ReviewsArticle Containing Books The Good Immigrant
A really fun and insightful look at what being a 'good immigrant' is like in Britain today. Not the doctors, or dentists. Just a regular bunch of people, who live everyday lives, but with a much higher standard put on them. I laughed and despaired at the similar situations each of these writers experienced. I recognised some of what was said, but leant a lot of new things too. Which is exactly how it should be. I'd highly recommend this book to anyone. Especially if you're wanting to diversifyThis is one of the most important books Ive read in a long time, and everyone should read it. Its a collection of essays about British immigrant experience, all of them fascinating, informative, funny, angry. The essays are each specific and detailed, with huge variety and breadth in the ways they talk about the subject, but the common threads of how immigrants are treated here come through in a way that makes me, frankly, pretty bloody ashamed. This was shockingly eye opening to me as a white
4.75⭐ White people debate it. We live it. MY NAME IS MY NAME - Chimene SuleymanBut tradition is an inescapable trait of our communities - those who cannot rely on land or home for their identity. Our parents, and their parents, and theirs before, have little more to leave us beyond their names, beyond their language. We have inherited the knowledge that community means to remain. When we cannot return to our homes - or are waiting for them to be taken from us again - we must get the hang of how
Bloody freaking brilliant. So good, so sharp, so touching, so funny, just absolutely great.
* This book was sent to me for review by the publisher (AND I AM SO VERY GLAD IT WAS!) *I LOVED THIS. Literally, this is THE BEST essay collection I've ever read by a million miles. I tabbed over 60 lines and pages within this, not a single essay doesn't have a tab or something that moved me, hit me or infuriated me. This is passion, raw and simple. It billows out onto the pages as these people share their stories and their experiences in an honest, clear, yet VITAL way. These stories struck me
Short review: absolutely essential reading, a real eye-opening account of living in modern Britain.Long review:Some context. I grew up near Bath, in Somerset. This is a part of the UK that, according to recent data, is 94.5% white. In my secondary school there were perhaps ten students out of a year of over two hundred students who were anything other than pasty, northern European white. In other words, growing up I was surrounded by an almost overwhelming hegemony of whiteness. This was barely
Essentially reading. The collection of essays here range widely in topic, tone and voice. Some essays moved me to tears (Vinay Patel), others laughter (Bim Adewunmi, Riz Ahmed), others explored areas of immigration and systemic racism I had never thought about before: such as the role of British racism on casteism (Sarah Shaim) or using fashion as a way to explore immigrant identity (Sabrina Mahfouz). Common themes soon emerge: on home, identity, the need for better representation across media,
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