Publisher's Synopsis
"With our eyes" is a book that, through politically "correct" language, addresses the issues of immigration, education to respect diversity, racism and which, at the same time, gives us another vision of Africa and what it means to be Afro-descendant in Italy today.
Today we ask too little about what girls and boys see, feel and think about the present, its contradictions and above all the enormous social and cultural differences which are also the result of the multi-ethnic society in which they live. Topics such as discrimination and the use of less divisive language are often addressed in schools with blameless superficiality by teachers who, in their roles as educators, struggle to propose these issues adequately. This is because, most of the time, they do not have sufficient tools to be able to deal with these issues competently. Teachers have been complaining for years about the need to have permanent figures of cultural mediators within schools. But, except for a few rare cases, their requests are still unheeded today. And so we do what we can, trying to raise awareness among children and adults so that they can acquire the tools and critical awareness to relate respectfully towards those who are apparently different from the majority. But the truth is that the bulk of it is still left to "street" education. You learn (if there is the will) to experience diversity during everyday life which often has no filters or half measures. Inside the home, the wrong languages are still taught. Perhaps handed down from generation to generation. And so, in 2023, there are still children who, when they see a black person, hide and use the word "nigger" as if nothing had happened because that's what they were taught.
