Book Vue

Hello all!  Today, I have a guest post by De.B. Dubois , the author of  OTHERNESS: SOULS OF BROWN WOMEN . The recently released book touches a prominent social issue and I do hope it encourages to change our point of views towards brown women. I sincerely thank the author for providing such an in depth opinion with her book and her guest post here. How can thoughts and beliefs be changed for the brown woman to be accepted equally with others? The main issue that brown women face in todays society is the structured structure of the Indian& other “brown” societies, where patriarchy and fanaticism being the structuring structure has prepared the non-brown to generalise against the brown-women: breeding, docile, submissive, honour of the family, deity – basically the brown woman is that creature who has been put up on a pedestal;a pedestal that is completely of the society’s making, only to benefit men and to guard their position within our socie...

Blurb Who is  the  brown woman? How does she live defined almost solely by her skin colour and all  the  history it carries? How do we carry racism deep within us even when we think we don't? These are questions that require deep thought and reflection, and that's what Otherness  encourages us to do. In a world increasingly divided along  the  lines of colour, despite its apparent modernity, here's a hard look at  the  realities that lurk within us, both as individuals and as a society. Read an excerpt here: Who is  the  brown woman? How does she live defined almost solely by her skin colour and all  the  history it carries? How do we carry racism deep within us even when we think we don't? These are questions that require deep thought and reflection, and that's what Otherness  encourages us to do. In a world increasingly divided along  the  lines of colour, d...