Tag: Sil Lai Abrams

  • An Intimate Look at Race: Growing Up Biracial in a Racially Torn World Wellesley Centers for Women Book Reading \ Panel \ Conversation with Author Sil Lai Abrams Clapp Library, Lecture Room Wellesley College 106 Central Street Wellesley, Massachusetts Tuesday, 2016-10-25, 16:30-17:00 EST (Local Time) Presenters: Author Sil Lai Abrams with Linda Charmaraman, Ph.D., Layli…

  • Memoir Uncovers One Woman’s Painful Search for Racial Identity NBC News 2016-09-08 Brooke Obie When award-winning journalist Sil-Lai Abrams finally sat down to write her memoir, she hoped to stick to her 8-month contract. Instead, it took Abrams 3.5 years to dive into the pain of her upbringing and emerge ready to tell her story…

  • SIL LAI ABRAMS HAD HER SUSPICIONS about her race as a very young child. Her brown skin was much darker and her hair much curlier than her fair-skinned, straight-haired younger sister and brother. When she would walk down the street with her Chinese mother and White father, her White neighbors would stare and whisper.

  • The unique and beautifully written story of one multiracial woman’s journey of acceptance and identity that tackles the fraught topic of race in America.

  • In ‘Black Lotus,’ Author Sil Lai Abrams Explores Search For Racial Identity Here & Now WBUR 90.9 FM, Boston, Massachusetts 2016-08-03 Sil Lai Abrams, author of “Black Lotus: A Woman’s Search for Racial Identity.” (Courtesy of Che Williams) When Sil Lai Abrams was a child, her white father and her Chinese mother explained her dark…

  • Your Blackness Isn’t Like Mine: Colorism And Oppression Olympics The Huffington Post 2016-06-28 Sil Lai Abrams Monday night, actor and activist Jesse Williams gave a powerful speech at the BET Awards upon receiving the Humanitarian Award, during which he spoke eloquently, passionately, and dare I say — even lovingly to the audience of millions. I…