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My Pisces Heart

Jennifer Neal
With heart, humor, and razor-sharp observation, this intimate and incisive memoir traces the journey of a Black, queer woman as she searches the world for a place of security and acceptance to call homeI’ve never seen home as a permanent concept; it is an image crafted from untempered glass that threatens to shatter with lack of care.Jennifer Neal was born in the United States to a family that moved continuously for their own survival and well-being—from the Great Migration to the twenty-first century. As an adult, she has continued to travel the world as a Black queer woman, across two decades and four countries—from Japan to the US and then Australia to Germany, where she has settled for now.Throughout her moves, Neal threads her personal story of immigration with local Black histories and racial politics to provide context for her own experiences. The result is both a crucial examination of how racism plays a foundational role in modern-day immigration systems and a tender tribute to immigrants and their stories.An unwavering interrogation of colonialism and policy, love and loss, hypocrisy and resistance, My Pisces Heart demands meaningful conversation about not only the ways in which we live with our histories, but also how they live through us—urging an honest dialogue on why the West continues to grapple with its past and visualize its future.
Autor: Neal, Jennifer
EAN: 9781646221844
Sprache: Englisch
Seitenzahl: 343
Produktart: Gebunden
Verlag: Penguin LLC US
Veröffentlichungsdatum: 22.10.2024
Untertitel: A Black Immigrant's Search for Home Across Four Continents
Schlagworte: Afroamerikaner / Erinnerung Englische Bücher / Reise / Welt gesamt, Pole Welt / Reisebeschreibung Migration (soziologisch) Wanderung (soziologisch) Zuwanderung
Größe: 34 × 211 × 146
Gewicht: 552 g