The Resource We cast a shadow : a novel, Maurice Carlos Ruffin
We cast a shadow : a novel, Maurice Carlos Ruffin
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The item We cast a shadow : a novel, Maurice Carlos Ruffin represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Colby College Libraries.
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- Summary
- "In a near-future Southern city, everyone is talking about a new experimental medical procedure that boasts unprecedented success rates. In a society plagued by racism, segregation, and private prisons, this operation saves lives with a controversial method--by turning people white. Like any father, our unnamed narrator just wants the best for his son Nigel, a biracial boy whose black birthmark is getting bigger by the day. But in order to afford Nigel's whiteness operation, our narrator must make partner as one of the few black associates at his law firm, jumping through a series of increasingly absurd hoops--from diversity committees to plantation tours to equality activist groups--in a tragicomic quest to protect his son. This electrifying, suspenseful novel is, at once, a razor-sharp satire of surviving racism in America and a profoundly moving family story. In the tradition of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, We Cast a Shadow fearlessly shines a light on the violence we inherit, and on the desperate things we do for the ones we love"--
- Language
- eng
- Label
- We cast a shadow : a novel
- Title
- We cast a shadow
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Maurice Carlos Ruffin
- Subject
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- Dystopian fiction
- Dystopian fiction
- FICTION / African American / General
- FICTION / African American / General
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Satire
- FICTION / Satire
- Fathers and sons -- Southern States -- Fiction
- Fathers and sons -- Southern States -- Fiction
- African Americans
- Racism -- Southern States -- Fiction
- Racism -- Southern States -- Fiction
- Surgery, Plastic -- Southern States -- Fiction
- Surgery, Plastic -- Southern States -- Fiction
- Fiction
- African Americans -- Southern States -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Southern States -- Fiction
- American fiction -- African American authors
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In a near-future Southern city, everyone is talking about a new experimental medical procedure that boasts unprecedented success rates. In a society plagued by racism, segregation, and private prisons, this operation saves lives with a controversial method--by turning people white. Like any father, our unnamed narrator just wants the best for his son Nigel, a biracial boy whose black birthmark is getting bigger by the day. But in order to afford Nigel's whiteness operation, our narrator must make partner as one of the few black associates at his law firm, jumping through a series of increasingly absurd hoops--from diversity committees to plantation tours to equality activist groups--in a tragicomic quest to protect his son. This electrifying, suspenseful novel is, at once, a razor-sharp satire of surviving racism in America and a profoundly moving family story. In the tradition of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, We Cast a Shadow fearlessly shines a light on the violence we inherit, and on the desperate things we do for the ones we love"--
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- Ruffin, Maurice Carlos,
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
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- African Americans
- Fathers and sons
- Surgery, Plastic
- Racism
- African Americans
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Satire
- FICTION / African American / General
- American fiction
- Label
- We cast a shadow : a novel, Maurice Carlos Ruffin
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- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1035437430
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- 324 pages
- Isbn
- 9780525509066
- Lccn
- 2018021024
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1035437430
- Label
- We cast a shadow : a novel, Maurice Carlos Ruffin
- 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
- 1035437430
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- 324 pages
- Isbn
- 9780525509066
- Lccn
- 2018021024
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1035437430
Subject
- Dystopian fiction
- Dystopian fiction
- FICTION / African American / General
- FICTION / African American / General
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Satire
- FICTION / Satire
- Fathers and sons -- Southern States -- Fiction
- Fathers and sons -- Southern States -- Fiction
- African Americans
- Racism -- Southern States -- Fiction
- Racism -- Southern States -- Fiction
- Surgery, Plastic -- Southern States -- Fiction
- Surgery, Plastic -- Southern States -- Fiction
- Fiction
- African Americans -- Southern States -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Southern States -- Fiction
- American fiction -- African American authors
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