![]() ![]() It came into existence thanks to the crowdfunded publishing platform Unbound, after just three days of advertising and endorsement on Twitter from none other than JK Rowling, who tweeted ‘I think this will be an important timely read’. ![]() ![]() Doing the book allowed me to create a platform for them’. There were writers I knew coming up against the same barriers I felt coming up. Shukla states in the editor’s note of the book that ‘this constant anxiety we feel as people of colour to justify our space, to show that we have earned our place at the table, continues to hound us. They even suggested that he was only there because the interviewer was Asian too. The Good Immigrant began after editor, Nikesh Shukla, read a comment underneath one of his interviews in the Guardian online that questioned his validity as a writer. This anthology of essays exposes the bastardisation of yoga, Indian takeaways, and fashion through its twenty-one minority authors, each exploring ‘what it means to be black, Asian and minority ethnic in Britain today’ and ‘what it’s like to live in a country that doesn’t trust you…unless you win an Olympic gold medal’. MA student Ysy Lees reviews The Good Immigrant - an anthology of twenty-one essays that expertly reveal Britain’s concept of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ immigrants while trying to identify what lies in the space in between.ĭescribed by Zadie Smith as a ‘must-read’, The Good Immigrant has been used as a key source by white audiences in the educating of today’s hugely biased racial narratives. ![]()
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