My Sisters' Voices: Teenage Girls of Color Speak Out (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780805068214)

In the tradition of the bestselling Ophelia Speaks, a collection of provocative essays by teenage girls of color

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

As adolescents, women, and minorities, these young authors 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 these young women have a chance to stand up and be counted, to present their own unique perspectives in fresh and astonishing ways. Here you'll find a Native American girl writing about the bumps in her relationship with her best friend, who's white; a Korean American girl who wishes she could help her mother understand that it's okay to socialize with boys as well as girls; and a biracial girl who feels she must be the designated spokesperson for blacks when she's around whites, for whites when she's around blacks, and for biracial people around everyone. These personal and inspiring stories about family, friendship, sex, love, poverty, loss, and oppression make My Sisters' Voices essential reading for young women of all backgrounds.

Author: Iris Jacob
ISBN-10: 080506821X
ISBN-13: 9780805068214
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Language: English
Published: 04/03/2002
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 5.50h x 8.40w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/01/2002 pg. 1078
Publishers Weekly 03/25/2002 pg. 55
Black Issues Book Review 07/01/2002 pg. 78
Booklist 07/01/2002 pg. 1809
Kliatt 09/01/2002 pg. 32
School Library Journal 10/01/2002 pg. 186