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by Caryl Phillips

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Born in St. Kitts and brought up in the UK, bestselling author Caryl Phillips has written about and explored the experience of migration for more than thirty years through his spellbinding and award-winning novels, plays, and essays.

Now, in a magnificent and beautifully written new book, Phillips reflects on the shifting notions of race, culture, and belonging before and after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

Color Me English opens with an inspired story from his boyhood, a poignant account of a shared sense of isolation he felt with the first Muslim boy who joined his school. Phillips then turns to his years living and teaching in the United States, including a moving account of the day the twin towers fell. We follow him across Europe and through Africa while he grapples with making sense of colonial histories and contemporary migrations--engaging with legendary African, African American, and international writers from James Baldwin and Richard Wright to Chinua Achebe and Ha Jin who have aspired to see themselves and their own societies more clearly.

A truly transnational reflection on race and culture in a post-9/11 world, Color Me English is a stunning collection of writing that is at once timeless and urgent.

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  • Title Color Me English: Migration and Belonging Before and After 9/11
  • Author Caryl Phillips
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Press
  • Publication date 2011-08
  • Features Dust Cover, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781595586506 / 1595586504
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.8 x 1.2 in (20.83 x 14.73 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects Identity (Psychology), Cultural pluralism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011010274
  • Dewey Decimal Code 824.914

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Citations

  • Booklist, 04/15/2011, Page 15
  • Essence, 06/01/2011, Page 84
  • Foreword, 04/29/2011, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 04/15/2011, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 03/07/2011, Page 0

About the author

Caryl Phillips is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction. His novel A Distant Shore won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and his other awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in New York.
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