Whiter : : Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism / / ed. by Nikki Khanna.
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 watched me as I played....
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2021] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I COLORISM DEFINED
- 1 Wheatish
- 2 Too Dark
- 3 Sang Duc Ho
- 4 You’re So White, You’re So Pretty
- 5 You Have Such a Nice Tan!
- 6 Brown Arms
- 7 Hopes for My Daughter
- Part II PRIVILEGE
- 8 Blessed with Beautiful Skin
- 9 Shai Hei
- 10 Whiteness Is Slippery
- 11 Regular Inmates
- 12 Magnetic Repulsion
- Part III ASPIRATIONAL WHITENESS
- 13 Digital Whiteness
- 14 Mrs. Santos’s Whitening Cream
- 15 Shade of Brown Noelle Marie Falcis, Filipina American, 27
- Part IV ANTIBLACKNESS
- 16 Creation Stories
- 17 What It Means to Be Brown
- 18 The Perpetual Outsider
- Part V BELONGING AND IDENTITY
- 19 What Are You?
- 20 Born Filipina, Somewhere in Between
- 21 Invisible to My Own People
- 22 Nobody Deserves to Feel like a Foreigner in Her Own Culture
- 23 Tired
- Part VI SKIN— REDEFINED
- 24 The Very Best of You
- 25 Reprogramming
- 26 Cartographies of Myself
- 27 The Sun Is Calling My Name
- 28 Abominable Honhyeol
- 29 Dear Future Child
- 30 Teeth
- Notes
- Bibliography
- About the Editor
- About the Contributors
- Index