Of Color: Essays

By Jaswinder Bolina

Book Overview

In his debut essay collection, award-winning poet Jaswinder Bolina meditates on "how race," as he puts it, "becomes metaphysical" the cumulative toll of the microaggressions and macro-pressures lurking in the academic market, on the literary circuit, in the dating pool, and on the sidewalks of any given U.S. city. Training a keenly thoughtful lens on questions that are never fully abstract-about immigration and assimilation and class, about the political utility of art, about what it means to belong to a language and a nation that brand you as other-OF COLOR is a bold, expansive, and finally optimistic diagnosis of present-day America.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1944211861
• ISBN13: 9781944211868
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: McSweeney's
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 7.8"