The Good Immigrant USA: 26 Writers Reflect on America

The Good Immigrant USA: 26 Writers Reflect on America

by Chimene Suleyman (Author), Nikesh Shukla (Author)

Synopsis

The Good Immigrant USA is a collection of twenty personal essays by writers and personalities of colour exploring race and identity in today's politically and racially fraught climate. Confirmed writers include Riz Ahmed (actor), Teju Cole (writer) and Jenny Zhang (writer).

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Publisher: Dialogue Books
Published: 07 Mar 2019

ISBN 10: 0349700370
ISBN 13: 9780349700373

Media Reviews

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.

* Zadie Smith *
Author Bio
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 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.