Whiter : : Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism /

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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MitwirkendeR:
Ahmed, Tanzila,
Chan, Rosalie,
Chanbonpin, Kim D.,
DeCook, Julia R.,
Falcis, Noelle Marie,
Goveas, Rhea,
Hasan, Noor,
Husain, Sairah,
Iwata, Miho,
Jansen, Anne Mai Yee,
Khanna, Nikki,
Lee, Erika,
Liu, Betty Ming,
Lu, Lillian,
Luu, Cindy,
Ma, Catherine,
Manglani, Rhea,
Mangohig, Rowena,
Meas, Sambath,
Mizutani, Julia,
Mostiller, Marimas Hosan,
Nalkur, Sonal,
Nicdao, Ethel,
Ota-Malloy, Brittany,
Pila, Daniela,
Roa, Agatha,
Rondilla, Joanne L.,
Shastri, Kamna,
Taiwo, Wendy Thompson,
Thakore, Bhoomi K.,
Tran-Peters, Kathy,
HerausgeberIn:
Khanna, Nikki,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2021]
©2020
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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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

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