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Author Agnew, Vijay

Title Where I Come From
Published Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (308 pages)
Contents Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Beginning in Canada; 2 An Immigrant Student in Toronto; 3 Girlhood in Delhi; 4 Bombay; 5 History and Herstory; 6 In Search of a Community; 7 Being and Becoming; 8 Returning to Bombay; 9 A Third World Academic; 10 In the Company of Mothers; 11 Fair Play and Safe Places; 12 Lunching with the Ladies; 13 A Canadian in New Delhi; 14 Life among the WASPs; Afterword; Notes; Glossary of Hindi Words and Expressions; Bibliography; Suggested Readings
Summary "Where do you come from?" When Vijay Agnew first immigrated to Canada people would often ask her "Where do you come from?" She thought it a simple, straightforward question, and would answer in the same simple, straightforward manner, by telling them where she had been born and where she grew up. But over the years she learned that many so-called third-world people resent being asked this question, because it implies that having a different skin colour (which is what usually prompts the question) makes a person an outsider and not really Canadian. This realization inspired her to look mor
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Subject Agnew, Vijay, 1946-
SUBJECT Agnew, Vijay, 1946- fast
Subject Immigrants -- Canada -- Biography
College teachers -- Canada -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
College teachers
Immigrants
Canada
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780889209039
0889209030