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A review by melfierro
Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes
5.0
“[] sometimes I feel like I’m swimming in whiteness.”
“Black is not invisible”
“I go from being worried, on guard, to feeling ease as more people’s skin resembles mine.”
Donte is a biracial middle schooler attending an exclusive private school in Massachusetts. He is darker skinned, while his brother Trey is lighter skinned. The book follows Donte as he is wrongly accused of throwing a pencil and and subsequently arrested for throwing a backpack at no one in particular- then finds a home in form of the sport of Fencing.
A great read, illustrates the struggles of a young black boy in America.
“Black is not invisible”
“I go from being worried, on guard, to feeling ease as more people’s skin resembles mine.”
Donte is a biracial middle schooler attending an exclusive private school in Massachusetts. He is darker skinned, while his brother Trey is lighter skinned. The book follows Donte as he is wrongly accused of throwing a pencil and and subsequently arrested for throwing a backpack at no one in particular- then finds a home in form of the sport of Fencing.
A great read, illustrates the struggles of a young black boy in America.