Description
The classic anti-racist book--written as a letter from the writer to his daughter--from the prizewinning author
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.
Author: Tahar Ben Jelloun
Publisher: New Press
Published: 02/01/2006
Pages: 207
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 6.88h x 4.64w x 0.54d
ISBN13: 9781595580290
ISBN10: 1595580298
BISAC Categories:
- Family & Relationships | Parenting | General
- Social Science | Discrimination
- Family & Relationships | Prejudice
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.
Author: Tahar Ben Jelloun
Publisher: New Press
Published: 02/01/2006
Pages: 207
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 6.88h x 4.64w x 0.54d
ISBN13: 9781595580290
ISBN10: 1595580298
BISAC Categories:
- Family & Relationships | Parenting | General
- Social Science | Discrimination
- Family & Relationships | Prejudice