Shame On Me: an anatomy of race and belonging
By Tessa McWatt Listen to excerpt and view ordering information here
What are you?’
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.
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In Shame On Me she 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.
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VIEW INTERVIEW WITH TESSA McWATT
The book was launched in the UK on Oct 3, 2019. It has won the 2020 Bocas Lit Fest non fiction prize. Here is a link to the Bocas Lit Fest where Tessa reads an extract from the book.
https://www.facebook.com/bocaslitfest/videos/3023221947754590/
