Token Black Girl: A Memoir

by Danielle Prescod

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Racial identity, pop culture, and delusions of perfection collide in an eye-opening and refreshingly frank memoir by fashion and beauty insider Danielle Prescod.

Danielle Prescod grew up Black in an elite and overwhelmingly white community, her identity made more invisible by the whitewashed movies, television, magazines, and books she and her classmates voraciously consumed. Danielle took her cue from the world around her and aspired to shrink her identity into that box, setting increasingly poisonous goals. She started painful and damaging chemical hair treatments in elementary school, began depriving herself of food when puberty hit, and tried to control...

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  • ISBN10 1542035163
  • ISBN13 9781542035163
  • Publish Date 1 October 2022
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Amazon Publishing
  • Imprint Little A
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 239
  • Language English