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and profound meditation on the pol-itics of race today,from prizewinning novelistDavid Chariandy  \nWhen a moment of quietly ignored bigotry promptedhis three-year-old daughter to ask,\"What happened?\"David Chariandy began wondering how to discusswith his children the politics of race.A decade later,ina newly heated era of both struggle and divisions,hewrites a letter to his now-thirteen-year-old daughter.  \nThe son of Black and South Asian migrantsfrom Trinidad,David draws upon his personal andancestral past,including the legacies of slavery,indenture,and immigration,as well as the experienceof growing up as a visible minority in the land of hisbirth.In sharing with his daughter his own story,hehopes to help cultivate within her a sense of identityand responsibility that balances the painful truths ofthe past and present with hopeful possibilities for abetter future.  \n# I'VE BEENMEANING TOTELL YOU\n\n# BY THE SAME AUTHORFICTIONBrotberSoucouyant\n\n# I'VE BEEN\n\nMEANING TOTELL YOU  \nDAVID CHARIANDY  \nB L O O M S B U R Y PU B L I S H I N G  \nNEW YODV.IONnAN..0vtODn.ATEA?nr YYY.e  NEY  \nMastics Moriches ShirleyCommunity Library  \nBLOOMSBURY PUBLISHINGBloomsbury Publishing Inc1385 Broadway,New York,NY 10018,USA  \nBLOOMSBURY,BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING,and the Diana logo are trademarksof Bloomsbury Publishing Plc  \nFirst published in 2018 in Canada by McClelland &StewartFirst published in the United States 2019  \nCopyright oDavid Chariandy,2018  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted inany form or by any means,electronic or mechanical,including photocopying,recording,or any information storage or retrieval system,without priorpermission in writing from the publishers.  \nBloomsbury Publishing Plc does not have any control over,or responsibility for,anythird-party websites referred to or in this book.All internet addresses given in thisbook were correct at the time of going to press.The author and publisher regretany inconvenience caused if addresses have changed or sites have ceasedto exist,but can accept no responsibility for any such changes.  \nISBN:HB:978-1-63557-287-2;eBook:978-1-63557-288-9  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library  \n24681097531  \nTypeset by Integra Software Services Pvt.Ltd.Printed and bound in the U.S.A.by Berryville Graphics Inc.,Berryville,Virginia  \nTo find out more about our authors and books visit www.bloomsbury.comand sign up for our newsletters.  \nBloomsbury books may be purchased for business or promotional use.Forinformation on bulk purchases please contact Macmillan Corporate andPremium Sales Department at specialmarkets@macmillan.com.  \nT H E O CC A S IO N  \n○nce,when you were three,we made a trip out forlunch.We bussed west in our city,to one of thosegrocery-store buffets serving the type of food my ownparents would scorn.Those overpriced organics laidout 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