Title:
Brown : what being brown in the world today means (to everyone) / Kamal Al-Solaylee.
Author:
Al-Solaylee, Kamal, author.
Publication Information:
Toronto, Ontario : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, [2016]
©2016
Call Number:
HT1521 .A36 2016
Abstract:
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.
Edition:
First Canadian edition.
ISBN:
9781443441438
Physical Description:
326 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents:
A colour, a vanished race, a metaphor -- Colourism : fair is fair? -- Trinidad : guarding the colour line -- The Philippines : at the world's service -- Hong Kong : workers, women, mothers -- Sri Lanka : in the shadow of the Philippines -- Qatar : between men -- The United Kingdom : British values -- France : another Paris -- The United States : undocumented -- Canada : the wedge issue.
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