Call me black. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)

I DISAGREE WITH THE REVIEW OF ALICIA Terry Henderson's Call Me Black Call Me Beautiful (Royal Regal, 2002; March 2003, p. 193). The book answered a child's simple question about his skin color and was not meant as an exploration of his culture or heritage. Just as the adopted girl in Marjorie Ann Waybill's Chinese Eyes questions the teasing by her classmates and her Caucasian mother tells her that her eye shape makes her beautiful, the mother in Call Me Black assures her son that he and his white friend are "both absolutely beautiful." Both stories also point out ...

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