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Country
  
Morocco

Media type
  
Print

ISBN
  
156584534X

Author
  
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Genres
  
Fiction, Dialogue

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Language
  
French

Pages
  
207

Originally published
  
1998

Page count
  
207

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Original title
  
Le racisme expliqué à ma fille

Similar
  
Works by Tahar Ben Jelloun, Racism books, Fiction books

Racism Explained to My Daughter (by Tahar Ben Jelloun, 1998, ISBN 88-7754-206-3) is a book in which the author, during a demonstration against an immigration law in Paris, answers his daughter's questions about the reasons for racism.

Overview

An explanation of the modern "trauma" that racism is to children and to help adults answer their children's questions on racism, and that children are more likely to understand that one isn't born racist, but becomes one, and adults are not likely to change their ideas.

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