My time to speak : reclaiming ancestry and confronting race / Ilia Calderón.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Calderón, Ilia, 1972- author.

Contributor:

Obejas, Achy, 1956- translator.

Standardized Title:

Es mi turno. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Television journalists--United States--Biography.

Television journalists.

Women television journalists.

United States.

Women television journalists--Biography.

Multiracial people--United States--Biography.

Multiracial people.

Calderón, Ilia, 1972-.

Calderón, Ilia.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 259 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Atria Books hardcover edition.

Other Title:

Reclaiming ancestry and confronting race

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2020.

Summary:

"An inspiring, timely, and conversation-starting memoir from the barrier-breaking and Emmy Award-winning journalist Ilia Calderón-the first Afro-Latina to anchor a high-profile newscast for a major Hispanic broadcast network in the United States-about following your dreams, overcoming prejudice, and embracing your identity"-- Provided by publisher.

In Chocó, Colombia, the Afro-Latino province where Calderón grew up, your skin could be any shade and you'd still be considered blood. Attending high school and college in Medellín, she became familiar with horrifying racial slurs thrown at her both inside and outside of the classroom. Presented her the opportunity of a lifetime at Telemundo in Miami, she was excited to start a new life, and identity, in the United States, where racial boundaries, she believed, had long since dissolved and equality was the rule. Here she discusses building a new identity in the United States in the midst of racially charged violence and political polarization while overcoming fear and confronting hate head on. -- adapted from jacket

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Kerosene in Our Souls

2. This Is How We Dance in El Choco

3. Coffee, Roots, and Blood

4. Black Horse

5. Rebel

6. The Perfect Tone

7. This Audition Is Not for You

8. The First Time, the First One

9. Not This Audition Either

10. My New Minority

11. A New Challenge with an Impact

12. Love Isn't Blind

13. Returning to Where I'd Never Been: Welcome Home!

14. One Hundred Percent Anna

15. The Day I Blew Up

16. What Offends Sells

17. The First, but Not the Only One

18. Silences That Heal and Silences That Kill

19. The High Price of Silence

20. Until the Last Breath

21. Inconvenient Caravans

22. Law-Abiding Silences

23. The Last Word

24. Returning to Kerosene.

Other Format:

Online version: Calderón, Ilia, 1972- My time to speak.

ISBN:

9781982103859

198210385X

OCLC:

1124368520