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Carregando... The Good Immigrant (original: 2016; edição: 2016)de Nikesh Shukla (Autor)
Informações da ObraThe Good Immigrant: 21 Writers Explore What It Means to be Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic in Britain Today de Nikesh Shukla (Editor) (2016)
   Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.   ) djh_1962 | Jan 7, 2024 |  ) bdgamer | Sep 10, 2021 | Highly recommended. (  ) AmphipodGirl | May 23, 2021 | Some of the opinions offered in the essays in this book read as made by economic migrants, who talk of “the language of their homeland” perhaps as any immigrant does, but also “the language of the coloniser”, which doesn’t seem right when you are living in the country of the historic “coloniser”, with all British, of all classes, being homogenised as colonisers for these purposes. Overall, I found the book interesting, occasionally illuminating, but somewhat disappointing. (  ) CarltonC | Jan 7, 2021 | It's a pity, because the five or so essays I've read so far have ranged from good to excellent. They wrestle a lot with what it's like to be in that grey area between first- and second- generation immigrant: a territory I know well having myself moved to Britain as a small child, and to the US as a student. Based on the subset I've read, I do recommend this collection really strongly to anyone who wants to understand what that experience is like. I guess I'm finding it hard to stomach because I'm still living it, and that's a sign of how well these essays hit the mark. 1  eldang | Sep 18, 2019 |
 The Good Immigrant, a collection of essays about black and ethnic minority experience and identity in Britain today, is inconsistent, infuriating, uncomfortable and just occasionally insulting. It is also right to be every one of those things, and highly recommended.
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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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 Google Books — Carregando...GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)305.9069120941Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Groups of people People by occupation and miscellaneous social statuses Sexuality; Migrants MigrantsClassificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia: (4.13)
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