My Brown Skin

My Brown Skin
Title My Brown Skin PDF eBook
Author Thomishia Booker
Publisher
Pages 24
Release 2019-08
Genre
ISBN 9781086237665

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A heartwarming story about embracing big who you are. A child's first words of confidence and pride.

I Like My Brown Skin Because...

I Like My Brown Skin Because...
Title I Like My Brown Skin Because... PDF eBook
Author Julia A. Davis
Publisher
Pages
Release 2017-01-09
Genre
ISBN 9780996788038

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I Like My Brown Skin Because... was written after a four-year-old asked his grandmother if her brown skin ever made her sad, and then asked her why she liked her brown skin so much. This must-read book is an answer to his questions. I Like My Brown Skin Because... is a conversation launch pad for parents and children of every background - black, white, yellow, brown, red and mixed. It is for all who want to understand the history behind the "racial" tension in the United States today and treat all people with respect and dignity. Concise and easy to read, it is appropriate for people of all ages and addresses the need for diversity in children's books.

Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American

Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American
Title Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American PDF eBook
Author Wajahat Ali
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 272
Release 2022-01-25
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0393867986

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“Go back to where you came from, you terrorist!” This is just one of the many warm, lovely, and helpful tips that Wajahat Ali and other children of immigrants receive on a daily basis. Go back where, exactly? Fremont, California, where he grew up, but is now an unaffordable place to live? Or Pakistan, the country his parents left behind a half-century ago? Growing up living the suburban American dream, young Wajahat devoured comic books (devoid of brown superheroes) and fielded well-intentioned advice from uncles and aunties. (“Become a doctor!”) He had turmeric stains under his fingernails, was accident-prone, suffered from OCD, and wore Husky pants, but he was as American as his neighbors, with roots all over the world. Then, while Ali was studying at University of California, Berkeley, 9/11 happened. Muslims replaced communists as America’s enemy #1, and he became an accidental spokesman and ambassador of all ordinary, unthreatening things Muslim-y. Now a middle-aged dad, Ali has become one of the foremost and funniest public intellectuals in America. In Go Back to Where You Came From, he tackles the dangers of Islamophobia, white supremacy, and chocolate hummus, peppering personal stories with astute insights into national security, immigration, and pop culture. In this refreshingly bold, hopeful, and uproarious memoir, Ali offers indispensable lessons for cultivating a more compassionate, inclusive, and delicious America.

For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts

For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts
Title For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts PDF eBook
Author Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez
Publisher Seal Press
Pages 250
Release 2021-09-07
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1541674863

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The founder of Latina Rebels and a “Latinx Activist You Should Know”(Teen Vogue) arms women of color with the tools and knowledge they need to find success on their own terms For generations, Brown girls have had to push against powerful forces of sexism, racism, and classism, often feeling alone in the struggle. By founding Latina Rebels, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez has created a community to help women fight together. In For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts, she offers wisdom and a liberating path forward for all women of color. She crafts powerful ways to address the challenges Brown girls face, from imposter syndrome to colorism. She empowers women to decolonize their worldview, and defy “universal” white narratives, by telling their own stories. Her book guides women of color toward a sense of pride and sisterhood and offers essential tools to energize a movement. May it spark a fire within you.

Tan to Tamarind

Tan to Tamarind
Title Tan to Tamarind PDF eBook
Author Malathi Michelle Iyengar
Publisher Children's Book Press
Pages 40
Release 2009
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 9780892392278

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Poems in celebration of brown skin color.

Same Family, Different Colors

Same Family, Different Colors
Title Same Family, Different Colors PDF eBook
Author Lori L. Tharps
Publisher Beacon Press
Pages 218
Release 2016-10-04
Genre Family & Relationships
ISBN 0807076791

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Weaving together personal stories, history, and analysis, Same Family, Different Colors explores the myriad ways skin-color politics affect family dynamics in the United States. Colorism and color bias—the preference for or presumed superiority of people based on the color of their skin—is a pervasive and damaging but rarely openly discussed phenomenon. In this unprecedented book, Lori L. Tharps explores the issue in African American, Latino, Asian American, and mixed-race families and communities by weaving together personal stories, history, and analysis. The result is a compelling portrait of the myriad ways skin-color politics affect family dynamics in the United States. Tharps, the mother of three mixed-race children with three distinct skin colors, uses her own family as a starting point to investigate how skin-color difference is dealt with. Her journey takes her across the country and into the lives of dozens of diverse individuals, all of whom have grappled with skin-color politics and speak candidly about experiences that sometimes scarred them. From a Latina woman who was told she couldn’t be in her best friend’s wedding photos because her dark skin would “spoil” the pictures, to a light-skinned African American man who spent his entire childhood “trying to be Black,” Tharps illuminates the complex and multifaceted ways that colorism affects our self-esteem and shapes our lives and relationships. Along with intimate and revealing stories, Tharps adds a historical overview and a contemporary cultural critique to contextualize how various communities and individuals navigate skin-color politics. Groundbreaking and urgent, Same Family, Different Colors is a solution-seeking journey to the heart of identity politics, so that this more subtle “cousin to racism,” in the author’s words, will be exposed and confronted.

The Brown Skin I'm In

The Brown Skin I'm In
Title The Brown Skin I'm In PDF eBook
Author Alexandra Hooks
Publisher
Pages
Release 2021-10-19
Genre
ISBN 9781735537832

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