Bibliograph

Color me English, migration and belonging before and after 9/11, Caryl Phillips

Type

Label

Color me English, migration and belonging before and after 9/11, Caryl Phillips

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Color me English

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

771083279

Responsibility statement

Caryl Phillips

Sub title

migration and belonging before and after 9/11

Summary

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

Color Me English -- Homeland Security -- Ground Zero -- American Tribalism -- "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses" -- American Stories, American Silence -- American Dispatches -- Colored People -- Men at Sea: African American Sailors -- Literature: The New Jazz? -- Warren Beatty's Bulworth -- "O": All alone in Charleston -- Luther Vandross (1951-2005) -- Strange Fruit -- Growing Pains -- A Life in Ten Chapters -- 1978 -- Northern Soul -- Necessary Journeys -- "Rude am I in my speech" -- Overtures -- E. R. Braithwaite -- John La Rose -- Claude McKay -- Beginners -- Water -- Blood -- Fire -- Outside In -- Belonging to Israel -- Chinua Achebe: Out of Africa -- Shausaku Endo: Confessions of a True Believer -- England, Half English -- The Pleasures of Exile -- A Familial Conversation -- James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket -- Ha Jin: Exile on Main Street -- Lafcadio Hearn: The Wanderer -- Distant shores -- France: Strangers in a Strange Land -- Sierra Leone: Distant Voices -- Ghana: Border Crossings -- Belgium: The Silenced Minority -- Kilimanjaro: The Height of Obsession -- Sierra Leone: Bunce Island

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