SKIN RIGHT 1
of Oretta FABBRI (Cidi Forlì)
dear white brother, when I was born I was black , / when I grew up I was black, / when the sun is black, / when they are ill, are black / when I die, I'll be black.
While you, white man, when you were born you were pink, / when you grew up you were white / when you're cold, you blue, / when you're scared, you're green, / when you're sick, you're yellow, / when you die, will be gray.
So the two of us, who is the black man.
(Oral Tradition Africa)
E 'Maria arrived, the intern ...
For two weeks, the trainees were students of the Professional "Roberto Ruffilli" Forlì [1] will be with us every day .
Mary is the intern assigned to our section of the greats. I introduce myself by giving the welcome and accompany children followed by the curious new friend the "cubbyhole" where can deposit clothes, backpacks, books.
While we await the arrival of the 28 children's tale to Mary as we are organized, presented to parents and children who enter, first say to her curiosity.
to observe the daily routine in order to undress and put their coats in the coat, checking the mail with parents individually, hang tag with your name and surname into the skirt at the entrance of the section, enter the greeting ' teacher and classmates, healthy parent and part of a group already at work, or organize individually. Log
designated to the "handheld mess" as always we are 28 to 28 and finally we can present to Mary.
I call every child by last name in the alphabetical order of the class roster (2), everyone gets up from his hand to Mary, telling her: - I am ... (name) nice to meet you -
Once you've done a bit 'embarrassing for some Timidone , as we shall explain to the children with Mary, what we see, hear, tell our school, our games, stories, songs ...
Children are curious ask Mary how her school, what do you do in his school, because she is so great at school with us.
Presentations
The trainee girl very nice manners, appearance and voice features, says his school and how happy I am to be with us.
- Me too, me too, me too ... - jump on the say in unison as they often do when they get the trainees.
says a girl taking her hand: - it's nice brown color of your skin smooth.
course, as with children, take all "saying" their thoughts.
- Father Henry is darker brown, even if Mary were born in the same place.
While continuing to talk with all intertwined questions, experiences, knowledge required and how does the skin to be born brown or pink.
- But it's not your face pink.
- not even your time.
- It seems clear white
- But I feel as smooth
These discussions are in the schools of small daily and we believe that the role of adults is to go lightly into the "they say" and wait for a new "the "to go to other roads.
I sit next to Mary, who is trying to write everything they say the children.
I invite you to listen to children without writing, because only with a tape recorder could transcribe everything. By listening carefully we can understand better the meaning of what they say, look at her face, catching the tone of voice, looking at the postures of the body.
listened in silence, watching them without interrupting them, only respond if asked, give us the opportunity to capture the essence of what they say and know.
Dialogues on the skin ...
Even they are listening and watching carefully because with her shrill voice that a child says - Oretta but you seem a bit 'yellow close to Mary and then she also has her hair and blacks you have them as white as polished silver, and then your skin also has lines around the eyes. Luckily this ends
complete and real observation of reality.
- You know my grandmother told me that the lines around the eyes are called crow's feet.
- Why?
- Why are wrinkles
- What does it mean?
- Wrinkled
- Oretta you show us your legs of the hen?
They approach and let me look around the eyes and luckily someone comments that they were as blue as the sky (women, never despair of any offense we trim Brunetta children we always had to make). Stretch out my arms so I can shake someone off while Mary looks and starts to write what is happening.
- If we take the lens looks better.
all take the magnifying glass starts the discovery of the skin of the face, neck, hands, feet ... you can see the hair, moles, scars, fingerprints, fingernails ...
- Oretta, the skin of your hands seems to be that the legs of the elephant.
than skin
Each personal story is primarily a history of skin ... The skin express the individual difference, but at the same time indicates the gender, social status, age ... it is the point of contact with the world and with others. Barrier with respect to external objects, though powerless to restrain aggression over a certain threshold, it is so alive as breathing, has trade relations with the environment, emits odors, translates the mood by the consistency (creep), the heat, the color that distinguishes it. Down the passage of stimuli and sense between the outside and the inside ... is a place of exchange with the world: through it pass heat, light, pleasure and pain.
The quality of the relationship with the world is primarily a matter of skin. David Breton
The taste of the world. R. Cortina and anthropology of the senses. (3)
Touch ... touch is the main way of meeting and sensuality, is the attempt to abolish the distance closer to another in an interplay that you want immediately. D. Le Breton
E 'smooth my skin, that of my turtle is rough, the fish has scales that sometimes cut the horse's skin with hair, but if the sheep's wool cut the skin underneath is pink and naked. To me it makes me shudder when cold, which means that I get so many white feathers, but dotted with all the hair straight. My skin is smooth as velvet, and my mom says that mine is buttery. But when we use the clay, the skin becomes dry and wrinkled. Sometimes it seems the sandpaper and chapped lips with the cold. If you have a fever burns the skin.
try many kinds of skin, looking for pictures and images of animals, looking for samples of various types of skin. The skin of the trees and bark. Let the book "Alphabet of the trees of the Rainbow." The skin of fruit and vegetables, with a father doing the garden with lettuce, tomatoes, pumpkins.
Show
Each world is a place
When we brought for the first time our children in Africa to know his paternal grandparents, were singled out and chased by other children with the cry: Yovo! (White) Yovo! Yovo! my patients for the first few days, but because the scene was repeated all the time, I had to explain the meaning of the term. Once in the house, exasperated, my daughter asked me: - Daddy, why in Italy they call me nigger and tell me here in Togo Yovo?
Srecko
has green skin like frogs. You are as red as a turkey. The chameleon always changing the color of the skin. (4) The giraffe has two colors like the zebra. The coral snake is of two colors. The skin of the pig is pink. So why do we color our skin pink? How does the skin turn brown?
Because if your skin is white and that of Mary Brown's shadow in the wall that you are black for you two? (5)
Under the skin there are so many things, the skeleton is white, is made of bones. I saw the bone of the ox is white. Well! why do not you know that all the bones are white?
A closer look, nobody is
normal.
Caetano Veloso
I found many samples to touch the skin are also useful to see the color of the skin and make it a huge carpet to look and touch. Scientifically explain to children how our skin becomes dark in the sun. Mary was born with brown skin who lives at the north pole is much whiter than us. Use the microscope to see even more skin, fingerprints. Getting old x-rays and a skeleton dial. Playing with shadows.
Two Color Mohiedden El Labbad
grown up, I learned the name of many colors. I learned that the "Blue" is not one, but there are many types of blue, and that "Red", "yellow" and "green" are a lot of red, yellow and green. When I began to study art, I learned that there are many colors beyond the basic and most popular. Among these colors less known, I met a color called "flesh", I used prepared in tubes and small bottles. Many of us painted faces, hands and human bodies with this color "flesh". In this distant time, none of us discovered that all the colors we used were imported from Europe and the U.S. Not one of us discovered that Americans and Europeans produce these colors for their own use. This is why the color "flesh" was like the color of their skin and not the ours. One day while I painted, my eye fell on my hand that he used the brush that painted bodies and faces with the colors of imported and found a big difference!
The color of my hand was so different from the color "flesh" with which I was painting. I was amazed and I stopped painting, and after a while I stopped using this color and began to write - alone - a new flesh-colored, and using it to paint faces, hands, arms and bodies. The new color was closer to the color of my skin, and skin of my people.
Mohiedden El Labbad was born in Cairo in 40, he published his first children's book in 62.
Smelling
Feel that smell Fishing is my skin. The skin of the fish smell. Even when you're sweating your.
Feel the smell and that of our comrades. Collect fruit, objects, materials to smell it. The flowers do with berries and rose petals and rose water and jam.
Enjoy
The skin is salty. If you swim in the sea is saltier. My dog \u200b\u200blicks me always, is to say he loves me. And 'good fried chicken skin is salted with rosemary.
fruits allows us to enjoy the skin: the apple is sweet, one of the mandarins is bitter, that is nuts ... hard.
Listen
The skin plays. If you get a slap the skin makes a sciac ...
Clapping all over the body with many ways to beat (open hand, a finger fist), snap their fingers, beat the body and the various parties on different surfaces and materials .
... After fifty minutes the donkey Pinocchio was underwater, the buyer said, talking to himself: - at this time my poor little lame Donkey must be ready-drowned. Ritiriamolo so on, and make his skin this beautiful drum. (6)
... but you consider yourself a black man, I consider myself a man.
from the movie "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"
a skin Paola Tabet Fair article from "A City" magazine published in Forlì *
Paola Tabet, the fair skin, and Einaudi.
Roullier Jerome, a man of color, and Arka. (Sadly discontinued)
2 Sandro Onofri, Gradebook, and Einaudi.
3 David Le Breton, The taste of the world. An anthropology of the senses, R. and Cortina.
David Le Breton, the skin and the track, and Meltemi.
David le Breton, the world on foot, Feltrinelli ed. 4
Leo Lionni, A color of my own, and Babalibri.
Nassera Chohra 5, I wanted to be white, and / or ed.
6 Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio.
Gunter Grass, The Tin Drum, Feltrinelli ed. * A city
v. Duke Valentino 0543 21422 11 47100 Forlì unacitta@unacitta.it http://www.unacitta.it/
The voice of innocence
When my wife and I were invited to a mixed couple on television, my son nine years asked me - because my father have to do a broadcast on the mixed couple. What do you mean mixed couple? I replied: - see that Dad is black and mother is white: we form a mixed couple. As for the people is something new, they want to talk about it. After thinking for a while ', looked at me and said, - "Dunno, for me, a mixed couple ... is ... a man who marries a robot.
Kossi Komla Ebri, New embarrassed Editions Dell'Arco-Marne.
Koss was born in Togo in Togo-54 is an Italian citizen, lives in Ponte Lambro (Como) is a doctor at the hospital Fatebenefratelli Erba.
[1] Roberto Ruffilli was an academic collaborator Moro, who was killed in his office in Forlì in the 80s by the Red Brigades.
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