![]() ![]() She attends an astonishingly diverse high school where she meets Taiwanese Americans, Pakistani Americans, Indian Americans, Mexican Americans, Iranian Americans and a Filipino German American. Gharib's mother is from the Philippines, and her father is from Egypt, so Gharib grows up in California with an extended Filipino American family and visits Egypt every summer. NPR editor Malaka Gharib's answer to the problem neatly encapsulates her whole approach to life in her high-spirited graphical memoir, I Was Their American Dream. ![]() How can you use comics' visual shorthand to indicate that someone is African American or Asian without caricaturing their race? And for that matter, how do you draw white people without subtly implying that whiteness is the default? From the earliest political cartoons up through last year's controversial depiction of Serena Williams by Australian artist Mark Knight, comics have a long history of exaggerating physical features in the service of racist stereotypes.Įven for the most well-meaning cartoonists, it's supremely difficult to make race visible without reinscribing such stereotypes. A portrait of growing up in America, and a portrait of. How?ĭrawing comics with characters of diverse races is a fraught task. Read I Was Their American Dream A Graphic Memoir by Malaka Gharib available from Rakuten Kobo. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. A graphic memoir about being half Filipino, half Egyptianand 100 American. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title I Was Their American Dream Subtitle A Graphic Memoir Author Malaka Gharib ![]()
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