Brown : what being brown in the world today means (to everyone) / Kamal Al-Solaylee.

Author
Al-Solaylee, Kamal [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First Canadian edition.
Published/​Created
  • Toronto, Ontario : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, [2016]
  • ©2016
Description
326 pages : 24 cm

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    Summary note
    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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-326).
    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.
    ISBN
    • 9781443441438 ((hardcover))
    • 1443441430 ((hardcover))
    LCCN
    2019410301
    OCLC
    949932048
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