Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone)
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (584 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1443453803 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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"An eye opener book" according to Guillermo. I liked this well written book. I think that people who are interested in undestanding the world where we live in will like it too. Readers can gain knowledge of what it is like to work and live in the world today being brown, acknowledge the big contrast between being brown or white, for example, in developed countries as well as in developing countries. This book was an eye opener for me. I am seeing people around me in a completely new light now.. Regina Rodriguez-Martin said Global look at immigrant/migrant labor. So often discussions of race and color only include black and white, while the world has actually been filling up with brown people. Al-Solaylee looks at how brown immigrant workers survive in host countries all over the world, from the U.S. to Singapore. He discusses the universality of colorism and the global economy that requires people to leave their home country just to earn enough to keep their family fed and housed. His theory that for uneducated brown people, your skin color determines your economic mobility is chilling.The au
Al-Solaylee holds a PhD from the University of Nottingham and has taught at the University of Waterloo and York University. Al-Solaylee also worked at Report on Business magazine and has written features and reviews for the Toronto Star, National Post, The Walrus, Toronto Life, Chatelaine, ey
Al-Solaylee is a splendid writer, achieving in Brown that rare feat: a work that is clear and complex, elegant and heartfelt.” (Kerri Lee Powell, author of the Willem de Kooning's Paintbrush, Finalist for the Giller Prize and the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize)“Brown is a work of such intelligence, depth, uniqueness and compassion. You’ll never see a brown person in the same way again.” (Zarqa Nawaz, author of Laughing All the Way to the Mosque and Creator of Little Mosque on the Prairie)“Brown is a riveting exploration of the ambiguities of race and a window on a multitude of worlds. It’s also thoroughly researched, beautifully argued, and written with grace and clarity.” (Michael Redhill, award-winning author of Martin Sloan and Consolation)“Truth-to-power.” (Sonnet L’Abbé, author of <
Vance (Hillbilly Elegy) and the historical rigour of Carol Anderson (White Rage), Kamal Al-Solaylee explores the in-between space that brown people occupy in today’s world: on the cusp of whiteness and the edge of blackness. This is a daring and politically resonant work that challenges our assumptions about race, immigration and globalism and recounts the heartbreaking stories of the people caught in the middle.. As he studies the significance of brown skin for people from North Africa and the Middle East, Mexico and Central America, and South and East Asia, Al-Solaylee also reflects on his own identity and experiences as a brown-skinned person (in his case from Yemen) who grew up with images of whiteness as the only indicators of beauty and success. It features