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Shame On Me

Tessa McWatt
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autobiography
Brit(ish)
campus novel
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dual heritage
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Ethnic minorities
identity
inheritance
Londoner
memoir
mixed heritage
mixed race
multicultural
multicultural London
race and identity
race debate
white privilege
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781913348229
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 11 Mar 2021
  • Publisher: Scribe Publications
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

NON-FICTION WINNER OF THE OCM BOCAS PRIZE FOR CARIBBEAN LITERATURE AND A FINALIST FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS’ TRUST PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION

What does it mean to belong?

All her life, Tessa McWatt has been asked, ‘What are you?’ Born in Guyana to a family with Scottish, African, French, Chinese, Indian, Portuguese, and Native American heritage, she grew up in a white suburb, out of place, longing to fit in. As an adult, she moved to the UK, still pursued by questions about her identity.

In this deeply personal reckoning with race and belonging, Tessa interweaves her own experiences as a mixed-race woman with a stark and unvarnished history of slavery and indenture, as well as observations on literature and popular culture.

This powerful memoir of being mixed race in a predominantly white society is a necessary exploration of who and what we truly are.
About Tessa McWatt
Tessa McWatt is the author of seven novels, two books for young people, and one nonfiction book. Her work has been nominated for the Governor General’s Award and the Toronto Book Awards, and won the OCM Bocas Prize. She is a winner of the Eccles British Library Award 2018. McWatt is Professor of Creative Writing at UEA.

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