Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone)

“Brilliant.” (The Walrus)“Impressive and expansive essential reading, not only for brown people seeking connection or explanation, but for anyone with any stake in understanding the non-white world.” (The Globe and Mail)“Kamal Al-Solaylee has written one of the most important books to come out of Toronto this yearA fascinating read.” (Toronto Star)“Needless to say, this book becomes increasingly important.” (National Post)&l

It features striking research about the emergence of brown as the colour of cheap labor and the pursuit of a lighter skin tone as a global status symbol. This is a daring and politically resonant work that challenges our assumptions about race, immigration and globalism and recounts the heartbreaking stories of the people caught in the middle.. Winner of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political WritingFinalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-fiction and the Trillium Book AwardA Globe and Mail, National Post, To

"An eye opener book" according to Guillermo. I liked this well written book. I think that people who are interested in undestanding the world where we live in will like it too. Readers can gain knowledge of what it is like to work and live in the world today being brown, acknowledge the big contrast. Regina Rodriguez-Martin said Global look at immigrant/migrant labor. So often discussions of race and color only include black and white, while the world has actually been filling up with brown people. Al-Solaylee looks at how brown immigrant workers survive in host countries all over the world, from the U.S. to Singapore.

Al Solaylee’s bestselling memoir Intolerable was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, and Canada Reads, and won the Toronto Book Award. Al-Solaylee also worked at Report on Business magazine and has written features and reviews for the Toronto Star, National Post, The Walrus, Toronto Life, Chatelaine, eye weekly, the Literary Review of Canada and