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A review by khaliyah_monay
Token Black Girl by Danielle Prescod
2.0
uninspiring…
I love memoirs but this one just wasn’t it for me. I would never defy a black woman by saying her story shouldn’t be shared. But for me a memoir is supposed to invite the reader into your world and leave them with something to take away. Yes not every black girls story is like this one so I knew it wouldn’t be relatable to me but I honestly just expected more. It was flat and honestly made me question the authors integrity with some of the stories she shared. Instead of calling it Token Black Girl it should’ve been titled “Revoke my Black Card”. Though there isn’t ONE way of being BLACK; the author just had very questionable morals and values and silenced her voice at an early age forcing herself to blend into the world around her. She struggled with acceptance of herself and also sadly wasn’t taught the values from her family of her skin and culture. The only takeaway I have from this book is that it’s very important to raise your children with knowledge of their culture no matter what it is so they aren’t looking to the world to feed them their own version of identity.
I love memoirs but this one just wasn’t it for me. I would never defy a black woman by saying her story shouldn’t be shared. But for me a memoir is supposed to invite the reader into your world and leave them with something to take away. Yes not every black girls story is like this one so I knew it wouldn’t be relatable to me but I honestly just expected more. It was flat and honestly made me question the authors integrity with some of the stories she shared. Instead of calling it Token Black Girl it should’ve been titled “Revoke my Black Card”. Though there isn’t ONE way of being BLACK; the author just had very questionable morals and values and silenced her voice at an early age forcing herself to blend into the world around her. She struggled with acceptance of herself and also sadly wasn’t taught the values from her family of her skin and culture. The only takeaway I have from this book is that it’s very important to raise your children with knowledge of their culture no matter what it is so they aren’t looking to the world to feed them their own version of identity.