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If you still think Canadians are not racist, this book will open your eyes to a different reality.This memoir spans the author's lifetime: childhood in Trinidad where classism is a theme throughout; immigration to Canada at the age of nineteen, which opened her eyes to the many challenges she would have to face to survive in this new country, a main one being that her "assumed identity" of a middle-class teenager with ancestors who were educated and well accomplished was different from the "assignedidentity" given to her in Canada, that of a poor immigrant, uneducated, dishonest and untrustworthy. In the seventies in Canada before political correctness, she faced many instances of overt racism. As a country, Canada doesn't think it is racist, and when racism becomes more covert, her white friends andcolleagues find many other reasons for the microaggressions she experiences. "You are too intelligent, they are jealous of you, you are too articulate." These reasons offer no comfort and
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