Author: Thomishia Booker
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781721221998
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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This book is filled with all the things little brown boys love.

Author: Sheeryl Lim
Publisher: Skyscape
ISBN: 9781542027779
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Welcome to Nowhere, kid. Life starts here. What's the problem? Sixteen-year-old Filipino American Angelo Rivera will tell you flat out. Life sucks. He's been uprooted from his San Diego home to a boring landlocked town in the middle of nowhere. Behind him, ocean waves, his girlfriend, and the biggest skateboarding competition on the California coast. Ahead, flipping burgers at his parents' new diner and, as the only Asian in his all-white school, being trolled as "brown boy" by small-minded, thick-necked jocks. Resigned to being an outcast, Angelo isn't alone. Kirsten, a crushable ex-cheerleader and graffiti artist, and Larry, a self-proclaimed invisible band geek, recognize a fellow outsider. Soon enough, Angelo finds himself the leader of their group of misfits. They may be low on the high school food chain, but they're determined to hold their own. Between shifts at the diner, dodging bullies, and wishing for home, Angelo discovers this might not be nowhere after all. Sharing it can turn it into somewhere in a heartbeat.

Author: Isobel Harris
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781592701353
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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First published in 1949, Little Boy Brown is a little gem, ripe for rediscovery.

Author: Ameshia Arthur
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781974677634
Category : Occupations
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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Join Matthew as he considers all the things he can accomplish and the careers he can do.

Author: Omar Tyree
Publisher: Just Us Books
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Contains twelve short stories in which preteen African-American males cope with the trials and tribulations of growing up.

Author: Omer Aziz
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982136332
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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An uncompromising portrait of identity, family, religion, race, and class that “cuts to the bone” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) told through Omer Aziz’s incisive and luminous prose. In a tough neighborhood on the outskirts of Toronto, miles away from wealthy white downtown, Omer Aziz struggles to find his place as a first-generation Pakistani Muslim boy. He fears the violence and despair of the world around him, and sees a dangerous path ahead, succumbing to aimlessness, apathy, and rage. In his senior year of high school, Omer quickly begins to realize that education can open up the wider world. But as he falls in love with books, and makes his way to Queen’s University in Ontario, Sciences Po in Paris, Cambridge University in England, and finally Yale Law School, he continually confronts his own feelings of doubt and insecurity at being an outsider, a brown-skinned boy in an elite white world. He is searching for community and identity, asking questions of himself and those he encounters, and soon finds himself in difficult situations—whether in the suburbs of Paris or at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Yet the more books Omer reads and the more he moves through elite worlds, his feelings of shame and powerlessness only grow stronger, and clear answers recede further away. Weaving together his powerful personal narrative with the books and friendships that move him, Aziz wrestles with the contradiction of feeling like an Other and his desire to belong to a Western world that never quite accepts him. He poses the questions he couldn’t have asked in his youth: Was assimilation ever really an option? Could one transcend the perils of race and class? And could we—the collective West—ever honestly confront the darker secrets that, as Aziz discovers, still linger from the past? In Brown Boy, Omer Aziz has written an eye-opening book that eloquently describes the complex process of creating an identity that fuses where he’s from, what people see in him, and who he knows himself to be.

Author: Eng-Beng Lim
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814760899
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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"A transnational study of Asian performance shaped by the homoerotics of orientalism, Brown Boys and Rice Queens focuses on the relationship between the white man and the native boy. Eng-Beng Lim unpacks this as the central trope for understanding colonial and cultural encounters in 20th and 21st century Asia and its diaspora. Using the native boy as a critical guide, Lim formulates alternative readings of a traditional Balinese ritual, postcolonial Anglophone theatre in Singapore, and performance art in Asian America. Tracing the transnational formation of the native boy as racial fetish object across the last century, Lim follows this figure as he is passed from the hands of the colonial empire to the postcolonial nation-state to neoliberal globalization. Read through such figurations, the traffic in native boys among white men serves as an allegory of an infantilized and emasculated Asia, subordinate before colonial whiteness and modernity. Pushing further, Lim addresses the critical paradox of this entrenched relationship that resides even within queer theory itself by formulating critical interventions around "Asian performance." Eng-Beng Lim is Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University, and a faculty affiliate of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Department of East Asian Studies, and Department of American Studies. He is also a Gender and Sexuality Studies board member at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. In the Sexual Cultures series"--

Author: Ronaldo Wilson
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822978245
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 89

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WINNER OF THE 2007 CAVE CANEM POETRY PRIZESelected by Claudia RankineProse poems that profile the interrelationship of the two central characters, looking deeply into their psyches and thoughts of race and class, and identity.

Author: Clamentia Hall
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578769028
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Follow a young, ambitious boy on an inspirational journey of self-worth and self-assurance. Featuring 26 vivid illustrations, rhythmic verse, and a supplemental goal tracker, "Brown Boy Dreams" is specially crafted for boys of color. Readers will love seeing their bright and limitless futures on the pages of this book.

Author: Thomishia Booker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781086237665
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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A heartwarming story about embracing big who you are. A child's first words of confidence and pride.