Brown
Subtitle: what being brown in the world today means (to everyone)
By: Kamal Al-Solaylee
Edition: First Canadian edition.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9781443441438
Subjects: Race relations; Social aspects; Arabs; Human skin color; Prejudices; Hispanic Americans; Muslims; Latin Americans; South Asians; Southeast Asians
Description: A look at the social, political, economic and personal implications of being a brown-skinned person today, whether from North Africa, the Middle East, Mexico, the Caribbean, or South and Southeast Asia.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-326).
Table of contents: title: A colour, a vanished race, a metaphor; title: Colourism : fair is fair?; title: Trinidad : guarding the colour line; title: The Philippines : at the world's service; title: Hong Kong : workers, women, mothers; title: Sri Lanka : in the shadow of the Philippines; title: Qatar : between men; title: The United Kingdom : British values; title: France : another Paris; title: The United States : undocumented; title: Canada : the wedge issue.