{"product_id":"raceless-book-georgina-lawton-9780063009486","title":"Raceless","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Bustle Most Anticipated Debut of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Freshly\u003cbr\u003e fascinating. [Lawton] is a particularly astute observer of the psychological\u003cbr\u003e dislocation caused by growing up mixed race... and she writes beautifully about questions of\u003cbr\u003e identity and belonging, so central to each of us in finding our particular\u003cbr\u003e place in the world.\" -New\u003cbr\u003e York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Guardian's\u003cbr\u003e Georgina Lawton, a moving examination of how racial identity is constructed--through\u003cbr\u003e the author's own journey grappling with secrets and stereotypes, having been\u003cbr\u003e raised by white parents with no explanation as to why she looked black.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRaised in sleepy English suburbia, Georgina Lawton was no stranger to\u003cbr\u003e homogeneity. Her parents were white; her friends were white; there was no\u003cbr\u003e reason for her to think she was any different. But over time her brown skin and\u003cbr\u003e dark, kinky hair frequently made her a target of prejudice. In Georgina's\u003cbr\u003e insistently color-blind household, with no acknowledgement of her difference or\u003cbr\u003e access to black culture, she lacked the coordinates to make sense of who she\u003cbr\u003e was.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt\u003cbr\u003e was only after her father's death that Georgina began to unravel the truth\u003cbr\u003e about her parentage--and the racial identity that she had been denied. She fled\u003cbr\u003e from England and the turmoil of her home-life to live in black communities\u003cbr\u003e around the globe--the US, the UK, Nicaragua, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, and Morocco--and to explore her identity and what it meant to live in\u003cbr\u003e and navigate the world as a black woman. She spoke with psychologists,\u003cbr\u003e sociologists, experts in genetic testing, and other individuals whose\u003cbr\u003e experiences of racial identity have been fraught or questioned in the hopes of\u003cbr\u003e understanding how, exactly, we identify ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eRaceless is\u003cbr\u003e an exploration of a fundamental question: what constitutes our sense of self?\u003cbr\u003e Drawing on her personal experiences and the stories of others, Lawton grapples\u003cbr\u003e with difficult questions about love, shame, grief, and prejudice, and reveals\u003cbr\u003e the nuanced and emotional journey of forming one's identity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49562732495121,"sku":"CIN006300948XG","price":4.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49641979707665,"sku":"GOR013322323","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49741868630289,"sku":"NGR9780063009486","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49851894726929,"sku":"CIN006300948XVG","price":4.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50343352828177,"sku":"CIN006300948XA","price":4.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53271428301073,"sku":"NIN9780063009486","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/006300948X.jpg?v=1774345985","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/raceless-book-georgina-lawton-9780063009486","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}