The Resource Go back to where you came from : and other helpful recommendations on how to become American, Wajahat Ali
Go back to where you came from : and other helpful recommendations on how to become American, Wajahat Ali
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The item Go back to where you came from : and other helpful recommendations on how to become American, Wajahat Ali represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Amesbury Public Library.
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- Summary
- "A rollercoaster ride of a memoir, by turns hilarious and heartbreaking, by the journalist, playwright, and political activist Wajahat Ali. "Go back to where you came from, you terrorist!" This is just one of the many warm, lovely, and helpful tips that Wajahat Ali and other children of immigrants receive on a daily basis. Go back where exactly? His hometown in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he can't afford rent? Awkward, left-handed, suffering from OCD, and wearing Husky pants, Ali grew up on the margins of the American mainstream, devoid of Brown superheroes, where people like him were portrayed as goofy sidekicks, shop owners with funny accents, sweaty terrorists, or aspiring sweaty terrorists. Driven by his desire to expand the American narrative to include protagonists who look like him, he became a writer, and in the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks, an accidental activist and ambassador of all things Muslim-y. He uses his pen with turmeric-stained fingernails to fill in missing narratives, challenge the powerful, and booby trap racist stereotypes. In his bold, hopeful and hilarious memoir, Ali offers indispensable lessons and strategies to help cultivate a more compassionate America"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 258 pages
- Isbn
- 9780393867978
- Label
- Go back to where you came from : and other helpful recommendations on how to become American
- Title
- Go back to where you came from
- Title remainder
- and other helpful recommendations on how to become American
- Statement of responsibility
- Wajahat Ali
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "A rollercoaster ride of a memoir, by turns hilarious and heartbreaking, by the journalist, playwright, and political activist Wajahat Ali. "Go back to where you came from, you terrorist!" This is just one of the many warm, lovely, and helpful tips that Wajahat Ali and other children of immigrants receive on a daily basis. Go back where exactly? His hometown in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he can't afford rent? Awkward, left-handed, suffering from OCD, and wearing Husky pants, Ali grew up on the margins of the American mainstream, devoid of Brown superheroes, where people like him were portrayed as goofy sidekicks, shop owners with funny accents, sweaty terrorists, or aspiring sweaty terrorists. Driven by his desire to expand the American narrative to include protagonists who look like him, he became a writer, and in the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks, an accidental activist and ambassador of all things Muslim-y. He uses his pen with turmeric-stained fingernails to fill in missing narratives, challenge the powerful, and booby trap racist stereotypes. In his bold, hopeful and hilarious memoir, Ali offers indispensable lessons and strategies to help cultivate a more compassionate America"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ali, Wajahat
- Dewey number
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- 305.8914/122073092
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- E184.P28
- LC item number
- A45 2022
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Ali, Wajahat
- Children of immigrants
- Pakistani Americans
- Political activists
- Journalists
- United States
- United States
- Label
- Go back to where you came from : and other helpful recommendations on how to become American, Wajahat Ali
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-258)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1291609815
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 258 pages
- Isbn
- 9780393867978
- Lccn
- 2021037426
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1291609815
- Label
- Go back to where you came from : and other helpful recommendations on how to become American, Wajahat Ali
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-258)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1291609815
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 258 pages
- Isbn
- 9780393867978
- Lccn
- 2021037426
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1291609815
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