Whiter : Asian American women on skin color and colorism /

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Heartfelt personal accounts from Asian American women on their experiences with skin color bias, from being labeled "too dark" to becoming empowered to challenge beauty standards "I have a vivid memory of standing in my grandmother's kitchen, where, by the table, she closely watc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Khanna, Nikki, 1974- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2020]
Temas:
Asian American women > Social conditions.
Colorism > United States.
Racism > United States.
Américaines d'origine asiatique > Conditions sociales.
Colorisme > États-Unis.
Racisme > États-Unis.
Racism
Race relations
Colorism
Asian American women > Social conditions
United States > Race relations.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Wheatish / Rhea Goveas, Indian American
  • Too dark / Miho Iwata, Japanese (Permanent U.S. Resident)
  • Sang duc ho / Catherine Ma, Chinese American
  • You're so white, you're so pretty / Sambath Meas, Khmer American
  • You have such a nice tan! / Ethel Nicdao, Filipina American
  • Brown arms / Tanzila Ahmed, Bangladeshi American
  • Hopes for my daughter / Bhoomi K. Thakore, Indian American
  • Blessed with beautiful skin / Rhea Manglani, Indian American
  • Shai hei / Rosalie Chan, Chinese/Filipina American
  • Whiteness is slippery / Julia Mizutani, Multiracial Japanese/White American
  • Regular inmates / Sonal Nalkur, Indo-Canadian (currently resides in the U.S.)
  • Magnetic repulsion / Brittany Ota-Malloy, Multiracial Japanese/Black American
  • Digital whiteness / Noor Hasan, Pakistani American
  • Mrs. santos' whitening cream / Agatha Roa, Pacific Islander American
  • Shade of brown / Noelle Marie Falcis, Filipina America
  • Part 4. Anti-blackness
  • Creation stories / Sairah Husain, Pakistani American
  • What it means to be brown / Wendy Thompson Taiwo, multiracial Chinese/Black American
  • The perpetual outsider / Marimas Hosan Mostiller, Cham American
  • What are you? / Anne Mai Yee Jansen, Multiracial Chinese/White American
  • Born Filipina, somewhere in between / Kim D. Chanbonpin, Filipina American
  • Invisible to my own people / Kamna Shastri, Indian American
  • Nobody deserves to feel like a foreigner in their own culture / Erika Lee, Taiwanese/Chinese American
  • Tired / Cindy Luu, Vietnamese American
  • The very best of you / Joanne L. Rondilla, Filipina American
  • Reprogramming / Daniela Pila, Filipina American
  • Cartographies of myself / Lillian Lu, Chinese American
  • The sun is calling my name / Rowena Mangohig, Filipina American
  • Abominable honhyeol / Julia R. DeCook, Multiracial Korean/White American
  • Dear future child / Kathy Tran-Peters, Vietnamese American
  • Teeth / Betty Ming Liu, Chinese American

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