Junot Diaz - This Is How You Lose Her Review
There's fifty shades of white but only one black. You've been tanning on the beach. You're mulatto. You cake your face with white powder. A shaved head and a strong brow hiding whites of European eyeballs. There is only one black, and it's the one you take on, it's the one you don't hide. Until the second black.
Miami is a complicated place for identity. You meet a dark skinned man speaking French who disdains the word creole. Dominicans from the block call each other "nigger," and the Cubans in Coral Gables call those outside their circle niggers.
You learn early about the white skin obsession in Hispaniola. An island split into two sovereign states, technically, though one state spills over into the other. One state disdains the other. Puro racism. To climb up you have to marry light.
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