3 Sang Duc Ho

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I COLORISM DEFINED
5. 1 Wheatish 43
6. 2 Too Dark 48
7. 3 Sang Duc Ho 52
8. 4 You’re So White, You’re So Pretty 55
9. 5 You Have Such a Nice Tan! 61
10. 6 Brown Arms 67
11. 7 Hopes for My Daughter 72
12. Part II PRIVILEGE
13. 8 Blessed with Beautiful Skin 82
14. 9 Shai Hei 84
15. 10 Whiteness Is Slippery 88
16. 11 Regular Inmates 92
17. 12 Magnetic Repulsion 97
18. Part III ASPIRATIONAL WHITENESS
19. 13 Digital Whiteness 111
20. 14 Mrs. Santos’s Whitening Cream 114
21. 15 Shade of Brown Noelle Marie Falcis, Filipina American, 27 119
22. Part IV ANTIBLACKNESS
23. 16 Creation Stories 133
24. 17 What It Means to Be Brown 137
25. 18 The Perpetual Outsider 143
26. Part V BELONGING AND IDENTITY
27. 19 What Are You? 155
28. 20 Born Filipina, Somewhere in Between 162
29. 21 Invisible to My Own People 169
30. 22 Nobody Deserves to Feel like a Foreigner in Her Own Culture 175
31. 23 Tired 177
32. Part VI SKIN— REDEFINED
33. 24 The Very Best of You 187
34. 25 Reprogramming 194
35. 26 Cartographies of Myself 199
36. 27 The Sun Is Calling My Name 203
37. 28 Abominable Honhyeol 208
38. 29 Dear Future Child 212
39. 30 Teeth 216
40. Notes 221
41. Bibliography 233
42. About the Editor 243
43. About the Contributors 245
44. Index 253