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A review by madsandcallie
Of Color: Essays by Jaswinder Bolina
challenging
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
4.75
There isn’t a lot of talk about it online and that’s a shame because it’s beautiful. I love it when poets write essays.
If you like Ta-Nehisi Coates, you’ll probably like this.
Why?
1. It’s hard for a book to have vocabulary that I don’t know and there were at least 2 words per essay that I had to look up. The prose is gorgeous.
2. They’re short essays, so it’s an easy read, timing wise. But there is so much content!!
3. It put words to things that I think and feel around race, American culture, whiteness, etc but struggle to articulate. “…if we ask too much of the future it’s because we’ve asked too little of ourselves.” See!?
4. Everyone needs to read the American, Indian essay during election season.
If you like Ta-Nehisi Coates, you’ll probably like this.
Why?
1. It’s hard for a book to have vocabulary that I don’t know and there were at least 2 words per essay that I had to look up. The prose is gorgeous.
2. They’re short essays, so it’s an easy read, timing wise. But there is so much content!!
3. It put words to things that I think and feel around race, American culture, whiteness, etc but struggle to articulate. “…if we ask too much of the future it’s because we’ve asked too little of ourselves.” See!?
4. Everyone needs to read the American, Indian essay during election season.