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Token Black Girl - A Memoir (Paperback)
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Token Black Girl - A Memoir (Paperback)
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Loot Price R476
Discovery Miles 4 760
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Racial identity, pop culture, and delusions of perfection collide
in an eye-opening and refreshingly frank memoir by fashion and
beauty insider Danielle Prescod. Danielle Prescod grew up Black in
an elite and overwhelmingly white community, her identity made more
invisible by the whitewashed movies, television, magazines, and
books she and her classmates voraciously consumed. Danielle took
her cue from the world around her and aspired to shrink her
identity into that box, setting increasingly poisonous goals. She
started painful and damaging chemical hair treatments in elementary
school, began depriving herself of food when puberty hit, and tried
to control her image through the most unimpeachable, impeccable
fashion choices. Those obsessions led her to relentlessly pursue a
career in beauty and fashion--the eye of the racist and sexist
beauty standard storm. Assimilating was hard, but she was
practiced. And she was an asset. Their "Token Black Girl." Toxic,
sure. But Danielle was striving to achieve social cache and working
her way up the ladder of coveted media jobs, and she looked great,
right? So what if she had to endure executives' questions like
"What was it like to drive to school from the ghetto?" Or
coworkers' eager curiosity to know if her parents were on welfare.
But after decades of burying her emotions, resentment, and true
self, Danielle turned a critical eye inward and confronted the
factors that motivated her self-destructive behaviors. Sharp witted
and bracingly candid, Token Black Girl unpacks the adverse effects
of insidious white supremacy in the media--both unconscious and
strategic--to tell a personal story about recovery from damaging
concepts of perfection, celebrating identity, and demolishing
social conditioning.
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