'The Last White Man' interrogates a world obsessed with whiteness 📝: cadylang
. “One morning,” Hamid writes, “Anders, a white man, woke up to find he had turned a deep and undeniable brown.”
At first Anders’ surreal transformation upends his world; he holes up at home, calls in sick to work, and swathes himself in a hoodie and sunglasses to hide his skin when he ventures into the world.
For Anders, though his newly brown skin is a constant physical reminder that he’s no longer who he used to be, the greatest change may be in his psyche. He’s now acutely aware of otherness and being observed, how he moves in the world and how he takes up space.
Soon, Anders isn’t the only one pondering these issues. Gradually, his unnamed but primarily white town, and even the country at large, are rife with newly dark-skinned people, all reckoning with their prejudices and preconceptions, both private and public, of brownness and otherness. Hamid, who has twice been short-listed for the Booker Prize , is less concerned with how or why this change is happening than he is with probing a deep-seated and deeply problematic obsession with whiteness.
Although the author, who was born in Pakistan, initially came up with the concept for Anders’ transformation
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