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The prizewinning book of advice about racism from bestselling author to his daughter
When Tahar Ben Jelloun took his ten-year-old daughter to a street protest against anti-immigration laws in Paris, she asked question after question: "What is racism? What is an immigrant? What is discrimination?"
Out of their frank discussion comes this book, an international bestseller translated into twenty languages. Ben Jelloun has created a unique and compelling dialogue in which he explains difficult concepts from ghettos and genocide to slavery and anti-Semitism in language we can all understand, and adds an all-new chapter for this edition. Also included are personal essays from four prizewinning writers and educators who themselves are parents: Patricia Williams, David Mura, William Ayers, and Lisa D. Delpit.
Elegant and sensitive, and available now for the first time in paperback, Racism Explained to My Daughter is for all parents and educators who have struggled to engage their children in discussions of this complex issue.
When Tahar Ben Jelloun took his ten-year-old daughter to a street protest against anti-immigration laws in Paris, she asked question after question: "What is racism? What is an immigrant? What is discrimination?"
Out of their frank discussion comes this book, an international bestseller translated into twenty languages. Ben Jelloun has created a unique and compelling dialogue in which he explains difficult concepts from ghettos and genocide to slavery and anti-Semitism in language we can all understand, and adds an all-new chapter for this edition. Also included are personal essays from four prizewinning writers and educators who themselves are parents: Patricia Williams, David Mura, William Ayers, and Lisa D. Delpit.
Elegant and sensitive, and available now for the first time in paperback, Racism Explained to My Daughter is for all parents and educators who have struggled to engage their children in discussions of this complex issue.
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Winner of the 2004 IMPAC Prize, the 1994 Prix Maghreb, and the 1987 Prix Goncourt, Moroccan-born Tahar Ben Jelloun emigrated to France in 1961. His novels include the Prix Goncourt-winning The Sacred Night, Corruption, and This Blinding Absence of Light (IMPAC Prize, 2004). He is a regular contributor to Le Monde, La Repubblica, El País, and Panorama. Carol Volk translated Ben Jelloun's novel Corruption. She lives in Washington, D.C.
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Jelloun, a French writer of Moroccan descent, wrote this book in response to his 10-year-old daughter's queries about racism. The queries came at a time when France and other European nations were exploring how to absorb--or not--people from their former colonies. Jelloun discusses cultural differences, genetics, and religion, all the things that make us different. He examines the social, political, economic, and psychological aspects of racism. Although the topic is fairly weighty, Jelloun articulates the issues without being pedantic. He tells his daughter, and the reader, that racists are deeply troubled people. Jelloun's essay is aimed at guiding children from 8 to 14 and could help young people appreciate the complexity of racism. Other writers offer their own responses regarding how to explain racism: a black female professor, an Asian poet, a white male professor, and a white female children's author who has adopted a black child. The introduction to this interesting book is written by Bill Cosby Vanessa Bush
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