Racism Explained to My Daughter

Racism Explained to My Daughter

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<div>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?"<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Elegant and sensitive, and available now for the first time in paperback, <I>Racism Explained to My Daughter</I> is for all parents and educators who have struggled to engage their children in discussions of this complex issue.</div>