Racism Explained to My Daughter
The classic anti-racist book—written as a letter from the writer to his daughter—from the prizewinning author
“Perhaps the most significant aspect of this book is the courage and forthrightness with which Ben Jelloun initiates a conversation about a subject that most parents would just as soon avoid.” —Educational Leadership
Winner, 2000 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award
Winner, 1998 United Nations Global Intolerance Award
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, Racism Explained to My Daughter is for all parents and educators who have struggled to engage their children in discussions of this complex issue.
Carol Volk translated Ben Jelloun’s novel Corruption. She lives in Washington, D.C.
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