The Talk

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Publisher's Synopsis

"This graphic memoir by a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning offers a deeply personal meditation on the "the talk" parents must have with Black children about racism and the brutality that often accompanies it, a ritual attempt to keep kids safe and prepare them for a world that-to paraphrase Toni Morrison-does not love them. Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn't play with a white friend's realistic water gun. "She told me I'm a lot more likely to be shot by police than my friend was if they saw me with it, because police tend to think little Black boys-even light-skinned ones-are older than they really are, and less innocent than they really are." Bell examines how "the talk" has shaped nearly every moment of his life into adulthood and fatherhood. Through evocative original illustrations, The Talk is a meditation on this coming-of-age-as Bell becomes painfully aware of being regarded as

Book information

ISBN: 9781250805140
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Imprint: Henry Holt and Company
Pub date:
Edition: First edition
DEWEY: 305.8960730222
DEWEY edition: 23/eng/20230215
Language: English
Weight: 1242g
Height: 186mm
Width: 262mm
Spine width: 29mm