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  Don't Play in the Sun: One Woman's Journey Through the Color Complex

  by Marita Golden

  “Don’t play in the sun. You’re going to have to get a light-skinned husband for the sake of your children as it is.” In these words from her mother, novelist and memoirist Marita Golden learned as a girl that she was the wrong color. Her mother had absorbed “colorism” without thinking about it. But, as Golden shows in this provocative book, biases based on skin color persist–and so do their long-lasting... (more)
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  by David Treuer, Toni Morrison, Marie-Claire Pasquier