You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (888 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01LDEHZ7C |
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| Number of Pages | : | 418 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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NO, you can't touch her hair. But you SHOULD read her book! thebookandi You Can’t Touch My Hair and Other Things I Still Have to ExplainBy: Phoebe RobinsonI am a 52-year-old white woman and I have never asked a “POC” (person of color) if I could touch their hair. It’s just never occurred to me to do so. I mean, how weird is that? Imagine my surprise when my granddaughter—a 10-year-old bi-racial beauty—came home from (a predominately white) school recently and told me that her friends all “love touching my hair.” I asked, “why. OMG Did I Just Become A Better Person? As a white woman trying to do better in the world, this is the book I needed to read. I think it’s important to listen to the stories of people who are different than you, who have lived through challenges you’ll never have to face, and who have to fight a fight every day you’ll never have to endure. Phoebe Robinson’s book provides this worldview in real, honest, & approachable stories about growing up as a young black woman to this white woman who has never in her life had to deal wi. Dr. J said At the Too of My Memoirs List. You know how you read Bossypants and then were like, I need more funny and inspiring memoirs RIGHT NOW? So you read Amy Poehler and hers is solid, thoughtful - but not nearly funny enough; and then you read Rob Lowe's first memoir and you're so happy and surprised that the most perfect male specimen ever to walk the planet earth also writes well and is funny and insightful? So you breathe a sigh of release and then Amy Schumer's memoir comes along and you pre-order it and whip that baby open the moment it hi
One of Glamour's "Top 10 Books of 2016" Featured on Refinery 29's list of "The Best Books of 2016 So Far" Read by the author, and featuring additional narration by Jessica Williams and John Hodgson. Time. Comedian Phoebe Robinson has experienced her fair share over the years: She's been unceremoniously relegated to the role of "the black friend", as if she is somehow the authority on all things racial; she's been questioned about her love of U2 and Billy Joel ("isn't thatwhite people music?"); she's been called "uppity" for having an opinion in the workplace; she's been followed around stores by security guards; and yes, people do ask her whet