Blind Spot
Tadessé, Myriam / Walker, Gila
Set in the entertainment world in France, this searing memoir explores the realities of being a mixed or biracial French citizen. In Blind Spot, Myriam Tadessé exposes the difficulty, even the impossibility, for France to truly understand and celebrate the lived realities of mixed or biracial French citizens. What the French word métis--which translates to "half-breed" or "mixed-race"--hides is how central the notion of race actually is in a s...