Shame on Me: An Anthology of Race and Belonging

Author(s): Tessa McWatt

Biography

Tessa McWatt knows first-hand that the answer to this question, often asked of people of colour by white people, is always more complicated than it seems. Is the answer English, Scottish, British, Caribbean, Portuguese, Indian, Amerindian, French, African, Chinese, Canadian? Like most families, hers is steeped in myth and the anecdotes of grandparents and parents who recount their histories through the lens of desire, aspiration, loss, and shame.

In Shame On Meshe unspools all the interwoven strands of her multicoloured inheritance, and knits them back together using additional fibres from literature and history to strengthen the weave of her refabricated tale. She dismantles her own body and examines it piece by piece to build a devastating and incisively subtle analysis of the race debate as it now stands, in this stunningly written exploration of who and what we truly are.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781925849011
  • : Scribe Publications
  • : Scribe Publications
  • : 0.313
  • : August 2019
  • : 2 Centimeters X 14.9 Centimeters X 20.8 Centimeters
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Tessa McWatt
  • : Paperback
  • : Aug-19
  • : 320