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Detail I've Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter To My Daughter
Author : David Chariandy
Pages : 96 pages
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
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ISBN-10 : 1635572878
ISBN-13 : 9781635572872
Synopsis I've Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter To My Daughter
"Stunning. A precise puncturing of the post-racial bubble." --Nafkote TamiratFor readers of Between the World and Me and We Should All Be Feminists, an intimate and profound meditation on the politics of race today, from prizewinning novelist David Chariandy.I can glimpse, through the lens of my own experience, how a parent or grandparent, encouraged to remain silent and feel ashamed of themselves, may nevertheless find the strength to voice directly to a child a truer story of ancestry.When a moment of ignored-in-the-moment bigotry prompted his three-year-old daughter to ask, "What happened?" David Chariandy began wondering how to discuss with his children the politics of race. A decade later, in a newly heated era of both struggle and divisions, he writes a letter to his now thirteen-year-old daughter.The son of Black and South Asian migrants from Trinidad, David draws upon his personal and ancestral past, including the legacies of slavery, indenture, and immigration, as well as