Color me English
Subtitle: migration and belonging before and after 9/11
By: Caryl Phillips
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by Perseus Distribution
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9781595586506
Subjects: West Indians; Immigrants; Outsiders in literature; Biography; English Authors
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Color Me English; title: Homeland Security; title: Ground Zero; title: American Tribalism; title: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses"; title: American Stories, American Silence; title: American Dispatches; title: Colored People; title: Men at Sea: African American Sailors; title: Literature: The New Jazz?; title: Warren Beatty's Bulworth; title: "O": All alone in Charleston; title: Luther Vandross (1951-2005); title: Strange Fruit; title: Growing Pains; title: A Life in Ten Chapters; title: 1978; title: Northern Soul; title: Necessary Journeys; title: "Rude am I in my speech"; title: Overtures; title: E.R. Braithwaite; title: John La Rose; title: Claude McKay; title: Beginners; title: Water; title: Blood; title: Fire; title: Outside In; title: Belonging to Israel; title: Chinua Achebe: Out of Africa; title: Shusaku Endo: Confessions of a True Believer; title: England, Half English; title: The Pleasures of Exile; title: A Familial Conversation; title: James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket; title: Ha Jin: Exile on Main Street; title: Lafcadio Hearn: The Wanderer; title: Distant shores; title: France: Strangers in a Strange Land; title: Sierra Leone: Distant Voices; title: Ghana: Border Crossings; title: Belgium: The Silenced Minority; title: Kilimanjaro: The Height of Obsession; title: Sierra Leone: Bunce Island.