My sisters' voices : teenage girls of color speak out / Iris Jacob.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacob, Iris.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenage girls--United States.

Teenage girls.

Minority teenagers.

United States.

Minority teenagers--United States.

Physical Description:

xxi, 246 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Owl Books edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : H. Holt, 2002.

Summary:

My Sisters' Voices is a passionate and poignant collection of writings by teenage girls of African American, Hispanic, Asian American, Native American, and biracial backgrounds. With candor and grace, these young women speak out on topics that are relevant not only to themselves and their peers but to anyone who is raising, teaching, or nurturing girls of color.

As adolescents, females, and minorities, these young women represent a demographic that has had no voice of its own, a group often spoken for but rarely given the opportunity to be heard. Now, in My Sisters' Voices, they have a chance to stand up and be counted. In the more than one hundred essays and poems in this remarkable collection, you'll find personal and inspiring stories about family, friendships, sex, love, racism, loss, and oppression. These young authors openly and candidly tell their stories: they express their fears, they write of love and hope, and they demand respect. My Sisters' Voices is essential reading for a generation of girls struggling to define themselves in a world that keeps trying to do it for them.

Contents:

More Than Skin Deep 1

Simone Senior: The Smoking Section 2

Wendi Nevels: The Black Sheep 7

Brooke Wilson: My First Love: Skratching 9

Vannah Shaw: A Culture of Our Own 12

Nzinga Moore: Standards of Beauty 16

Nneka Nnaoke Ufere: Fear 18

Lynette Salik: The Twenty Words I Never Understood 20

Jasmin Kolu Zazaboi: You Are You But I Am Black 22

Lianne Labossiere: A Page from My Diary: Black and Beautiful 23

Lisbeth Pelayo: Racism 26

Kazia T. Steele: Complexion 28

Jasmin Kolu Zazaboi: The Color Line 30

Jade Pagkas-Bather: The Color Line 31

Faleesha Grady: It's Hard 34

Elsie M. Giron: Searching for a Little Respect 36

Cecilia Nguyen: All-American Girl 37

Anne Hoye: Chameleon 39

Tara Bynum: Untitled 42

Andrea Friaz-Gallardo: Sick and Tired 46

Andrea Friaz-Gallardo: Assimilation 48

Alicia Mazzara: Known as "Other" 50

Akemie Cousin: I Wish ... I Wish ... I Wish!!! 54

Tara Bynum: Outbreak 55

Our Roots 58

Andrea Friaz-Gallardo: The San Joaquin Valley 59

Ashley Sng: Away from Home 64

Sia J. Yobah: Our Street 67

Sneha Upadhyay: Indian Roots 71

Brittney West: Is This Love? 74

Sokonie S. Freeman: Through Those Articulate Eyes 76

Amisha Padhair: Ugat: My Village in India 79

Taia Waltjen: Daddy's Girl and Life's Lessons 82

Anonymous: My Family 86

Tara Ashley Chaney: Justice (for My Momma) 87

Shivani Agarwal: Silent Soldier 94

Monique Beacham: Millennium Woman 97

Cierra Goodloe: Abandoned 98

Tiana Phenix: My Heartbeat 100

Hilary Evans: Spades 102

Person To Person 105

Shivani Agarwal: Chanson d'amour 106

Blair Revay Bonds: Lately Things 108

Uduak Onda: Untitled 110

Hyacinth Wallace-Blake: Vain Imaginings and Other Artifacts 112

Sarah Richardson: Friends 114

Alicia Carrington: Questions and Answers 116

Jennifer Oda: Her Dance 118

Jessica L. Farley: I Put on a Mask 120

Tayo Darrell: The Routine 121

Alicia Lea Haley: Untitled 123

Kristla Wingo: Battered Butterfly: A Story of an Abusive Relationship 126

Itoro Akpan: A Welcomed Identity 130

Tiana Phenix: Untitled 132

Maribel Lopez Guzman: Una Rosa en Mi Jardin (A Rose in My Garden) 134

Ourselves Inside and Out 138

Shimere Etheridge: I Am a Female Skater 139

Shawntai Genell Brown: Horizontal Ups and Downs 140

Neftara O. Clark: The Child of Our Younger Years 142

Meredith King: Do the Feminist Thing 144

Rebecca Guest: Maui Year 2001 148

Cara H. Sandberg: I am cara 151

Monica Sanchez: Untitled 153

Samantha McKinney: Sex 155

Ka'imi Crowell: Mortality 157

Jacqueling Nwaiwu: I Chose Schooling 159

Leah Skjefte: God vs. Creator 163

Jolynne Gonzalez: Entry to Church 165

Cecilia Nguyen: Behind the Wheel 168

Camille Hoosman: Plan C 171

Anonymous: Untitled 174

RubiVaughn: Spirit Keeps Her 176

Sharing Our Sorrows 179

Shatara Miller: Death of a Grandmother, Loss of a Friend 180

Christina Carrillo: The Death of a Loved One 182

Michelle Stevenson: Untitled 184

Ada Samuel: The Other Day 186

Naeesa Aziz: Steve Said ... 187

Christina Chon: Untitled 190

Lisa Carter: Spring Breeze 192

Carlotta Smith: Love Taps 193

Tallish Bell: Being Deaf 194

Camiele D. Land: Lately 195

Yanica Ricketts: Depression 197

Shimere Etheridge: These Scars 199

Precious Angel: Unwanted 201

Anonymous: Untitled 204

Nicole Pickering: Reflection 205

Mary Standing Soldier: Nonsense 206

Sarah Cook: That Child 206

V.M.: Violence and Abuse 208

Mary Standing Soldier: And We Were Gone 209

Clarice Lewis: Pain Street 212

Reclaiming Our Voices 213

Jasmin Kolu Zazaboi: Don't Forget the Stars 214

Shimere Etheridge: My Hair 215

Sandra Manzanares: Me 217

Alicia Rodrigo: Rhythmic Vibrations 219

Joycelyn Hubbard: Brown Skin 220

Melanie Medina: Girl Who 222

Leslie Neyland: The Girl I Knew 222

Neftara O. Clark: Essence of Life 224

Ebony L. Herron: Chasing Ebony 226

Diomara Chaparro: Untitled 229

Deymis Baquero: What Made Me Stronger 231

Candice J. Bingham: Untitled 233

Jeanette Asabere: Daughter of Africa 235

Sunny Rasmussen: Untitled 236

Candice Fleming: The Struggle: Black, Light-skinned, and Smart 237

Janelle Camille Cates: For So Long 240

Kristin Soong: Untitled 241.

Notes:

"An Owl book."

ISBN:

080506821X

OCLC:

48951552