Identitti

It takes a bit to find your footing within this books, because you're smacked right into the chaos of a race-scandal set in postcolonial-academia. So many thoughts and conversations about racial identity and race theory, in all forms (tweets, radio interviews, blog posts, hallucinatory conversation with Hindu goddess Kali). Sometimes there's too much chatter, and you wish you could just spend time with Nivedita and Priti and their friends, without having to think so hard. But, this book is definitely educational (note the footnotes at the end), and does well in showing you all the conflicting emotions and evolutions associated to racial identities. Ahem, identitties.

I was quite impressed by the fact that most of the online reactions in the book are associated to their real-life personae who gave their permission to be represented. I thought I recognized one name, excuse my ignorance. I imagine reading this book must be quite a ride if you're at home in that specific scene.