by Chimene Suleyman (Author), Nikesh Shukla (Author)
An urgent collection of essays by first and second-generation immigrants, exploring what it's like to be othered in an increasingly divided America.
From Trump's proposed border wall and travel ban to the marching of White Supremacists in Charlottesville, America is consumed by tensions over immigration and the question of which bodies are welcome. In this much-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling UK edition, hailed by Zadie Smith as 'lively and vital', editors Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman hand the microphone to an incredible range of writers whose humanity and right to be in the US is under attack.
Chigozie Obioma unpacks an Igbo proverb that helped him navigate his journey to America from Nigeria. Jenny Zhang analyzes cultural appropriation in nineties fashion, recalling her own pain and confusion as a teenager trying to fit in. Fatimah Asghar describes the flood of memory and emotion triggered by an encounter with an Uber driver from Kashmir. Alexander Chee writes of a visit to Korea that changed his relationship to his heritage. These writers, and the many others in this singular collection, share powerful personal stories of living between cultures and languages while struggling to figure out who they are and where they belong.
By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, troubling and uplifting, the essays in The Good Immigrant USA come together to create a provocative, conversation-sparking, multivocal portrait of America now.
Essays from:
Porochista Khakpour
Nicole Dennis-Benn
Rahawa Haile
Teju Cole
Priya Minhas
Wale Oyejide
Fatimah Asghar
Tejal Rao
Maeve Higgins
Krutika Mallikarjuna
Jim St. Germain
Jenny Zhang
Chigozie Obioma
Alexander Chee
Yann Demange
Jean Hannah Edelstein
Chimene Suleyman
Basim Usmani
Daniel Jose Older
Adrian Villar Rojas
Sebastian Villar Rojas
Dani Fernandez
Fatima Farheen Mirza
Susanne Ramirez de Arellano
Mona Chalabi
Jade Chang
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Publisher: Dialogue Books
Published: 07 Mar 2019
ISBN 10: 0349700362
ISBN 13: 9780349700366
The Good Immigrant is a lively and vital intervention into the British cultural conversation around race. Instead of statistics and dogma we find real human experience and impassioned argument - and it's funny
and moving, too.
Nikesh Shukla (Author)
Nikesh Shukla is a British writer and diversity activist who conceived and edited The Good
Immigrant (Unbound), the acclaimed collection of essays about race and immigration by
21 writers of colour. He is the editor of Rife Magazine, an online magazine for young
people and the author of the novels Coconut Unlimited (Quartet) which was shortlisted for
the Costa First Novel Award and Meatspace (Friday Project). He has been shortlisted for
the Liberty Human Rights Arts Award and named as one of Foreign Policy's 100 Global
Thinkers 2016. His third novel The One Who Wrote Destiny (Atlantic) and his first YA
novel will be published in 2018.
Chimene Suleyman (Author)
Chimene Suleyman is a writer from London who is now based in New York. As well as
contributing to The Good Immigrant she has written on race-politics for The Independent,
International Business Times, The Debrief, The Pool, Media Diversified. TV and radio
appearances include BBC Newsnight, BBC, and LBC. Her poetry collection, Outside
Looking On, was included in a Guardian's Best Book of 2014 list.
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