Prescod, Danielle
Token Black Girl: A Memoir
- ISBN 13:
- 9781542035156
- author:
- Prescod, Danielle
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Little A
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2022
- Pages:
- 256
- Dimensions:
- 20.9 x 14.1 x 1.8 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Biography, Personal Memoirs, Biography,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 20 working days
Description
Danielle Prescod's memoir, Token Black Girl, is a refreshingly frank account of her experiences growing up Black in an elite and overwhelmingly white community. Her identity was often made invisible by the media she consumed, leading her to strive for perfection and assimilate into a beauty industry dominated by racist and sexist standards. Prescod recounts how she pursued a career in beauty and fashion, despite the toxic nature of this environment, in order to achieve social cache and climb the ladder of coveted media jobs. However, after decades of burying her emotions and true self, she turned a critical eye inward and confronted the factors that motivated her self-destructive behaviors. In Token Black Girl, Prescod unpacks the adverse effects of insidious white supremacy in the media and tells a personal story about recovery from damaging concepts of perfection, celebrating identity, and demolishing social conditioning.
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