Under her skin
Subtitle: how girls experience race in America
By: edited by Pooja Makhijani
Contributors: Makhijani, Pooja
Publisher: Seal Press; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Emeryville, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: Race awareness in children -- United States; Girls -- United States -- Psychology
Genres: United States
Description: "This collection explores racial awakening. Including the first-person perspectives of women of color, white women, and those caught between two worlds, Under Her Skin traces themes related to double lives, fear, envy, lineage, and family, expanding the often painful exploration of difference." "Essays include the reflections of a woman whose girlhood is spent deciphering levels of oppression, from her Jewish family's past and internment in Nazi camps to her own spiteful treatment of their African American maids; brutal memories of "Beat the Buddha Day," a tradition of schoolyard violence that transfers discrimination from one group to another; and an unexpected contrast in how one childhood racial incident is recalled by two women, both challenging and complicating the notion of "victim." The first book of its kind to examine the impact of racial awareness on women of all colors, Under Her Skin embodies a vital and unique contribution to the national discussion on race."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Becoming / by Anita Darcel Taylor; title: In which I wade / by Judith Chalmer; title: A child's Christmas in Revere / by Patricia Goodwin; title: The last safe place / by Toiya Kristen Finley; title: Except / by Devorah Stone; title: The teach-in / by Mary C. Lewis; title: Beat the Buddha Day / by Colleen Nakamoto; title: Mirror / by Karen Elias; title: Homecoming / by Ana Chavier Caamaño; title: Running girl / by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu; title: Neon scars / by Wendy Rose; title: Betsy, Tacy, Sejal, Tib / by Sejal Shah; title: As American as apple pie / by B. Lois Wadas; title: Breathing lessons / by Randi Gray Kristensen; title: Don't you want to sound Puerto Rican / by Esmeralda Santiago; title: An apology to Althea Connor : private memory and the ethics of public memoir / by Traise Yamamoto; title: Bionic child / by Lisa Drostova; title: Black men / by Faith Adiele; title: Mangoes and sugarcane / by R. Hong-An Truong; title: Blonde / by Amy Meissner