Based on a collective 40+ years of peerreviewed research from two leading experts on race, and illustrated with sweet, goofy illustrations kids will love, It's Just Skin, Silly! breathes new life into an increasingly divisive issue and enables parents and educators to begin difficult but important conversations about skin color with their kids. The coauthors of the book, Dr. Jablonski and Dr. McGee, are highly specialized experts in their fields. This book combines their two research areashow evolutionary adaptations created a vast array of human skin colors, and how the illusory concept of "race" has been weaponized as a means for disempowerment and classification—to create a children’s book intended to stop mythmaking about skin color early, and provide children with the information they need to challenge misinformation about race in their daily lives.Celebrated historian and literary critic Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has provided a foreword and a glowing endorsement of the book.The emotional appeal of “loving the skin you’re in” is highly saturated in the children’s book industry at the moment, and while this message is imperative, there is a major deficiency in early childhood education and in the publishing industry about why we’re in the skin we’re in (What even is skin? Why do we have it? Why do we all have different colored skin anyways?). It's Just Skin, Silly! is distinct in...

Binding: Paperback; pages; Publisher: Catalyst Books; Classification: YNT; Weight: 348 g; Dimensions: 216 x 229 x 5

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