{"product_id":"9780143131380","title":"Not Quite Not White: Losing and Finding Race in America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA first-generation immigrant's exploration of race and assimilation in the United States, an American's journey into the heart of not-whiteness.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 \u003ci\u003eGeneral Hospital \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Jeffersons\u003c\/i\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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart memoir, part manifesto, \u003ci\u003eNot Quite Not White\u003c\/i\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","brand":"Temple Publications International, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022239219952,"sku":"9780143131380","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780143131380_p0.jpg?v=1769911951","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780143131380","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}