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Winner of the 1998 United Nations Global Tolerance Award and the 2000 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award Helps young people appreciate the complexity of racism.
Ben Jelloun’s lessons and tools for discussion are invaluable.
Comprehensiveandeasytoread.
Easy to read and provocative. Rare should be the library that does not have it.
A must-read. . . . Clear, powerful, and right on target.
An excellent tool to fight racism. Everybody should read it.
Racism Explained to My Daughter
paperback
$13.95 / £7.99
—EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP MAGAZINE
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.
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). Carol Volk translated Ben Jelloun’s novel Corruption. She lives in Washington, D.C.
Fall 2005
paperback
5 x 7 1/4, 208 pages
978-1-59558-029-0
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