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Title: Don't Play in the Sun : One Woman's Journey Through the Color Complex by MARITA GOLDEN ISBN: 0-385-50786-0 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 20 April, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Thing of Beauty
Comment: Marita Golden, as always, continues to write in an elegant, understated fashion...and this time brings to the fore what I and many African women consider to be the #1 problem facing our people today...the much denied hatred for dark skinned people, and in particular--FEMALES--who are "authentically" black.
I didn't, however, give the book five stars for tackling such an important subject. I gave it 5 stars for the author's subtle handling of YEARS of heartbreak, disappointment and "forced coping". I gave the book five stars, because Golden so carefully layers and allows her own personal beauty to spotlight the fact that color prejudice is both insidious and cancerous. Amazingly, Golden does this without rage and reciprical hate.
By hating the darkest of black women...we are essentially proving that we ourselves are White Supremacists who hate the womb of our beginning and ALL BLACK PEOPLE. What could be more important for black people in 2004 to wrap their minds around?
I myself come from Sudan and was put up for adoption at age 8 by my Egyptian grandmother...because she felt that my skin color was "too dark" for me to be included in my father's Egyptian family after he and my mother were murdered for protesting slavery in SUDAN.
I am the child of a "charcoal colored" African beauty and an Arab father.
Naturally, the trauma of such a rejection and such an event cannot be conveyed with mere words, but as a mother of 2 young boys who will someday be grown black men...I am grateful to Marita Golden for providing yet another powerful and important art work (to go along with Morrison's BLUEST EYE and my own LONG TRAIN TO THE REDEEMING SIN) that can aid us all in the dismantling of this troubling and horrific insanity through which white supremacy continues to hack away the limbs of our sacred being.
Black is not only Beautiful--Black is the genesis of humanity and deserves to exist. And Marita Golden continues to be a lush, velvety voice in the static, sometimes frivalous NEW world of black literature. I highly recommend this book, and as always...I so deeply love Golden's care, class and intelligence.
Kola Boof, Author of "Long Train to the Redeeming Sin: Stories About African Women".
Rating: 1
Summary: Superficial
Comment: Golden, while an accomplished novelist, sheds little light on the subject of colorism. A more thorough analysis and less personal account of "the color complex" can be found in the original book of that title.
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Title: On the Down Low: A Journey Into the Lives of "Straight" Black Men Who Sleep with Men by J.L. King ISBN: 0767913981 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 14 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Hottentot Venus : A Novel by BARBARA CHASE-RIBOUD ISBN: 0385508565 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Shifting : The Double Lives of Black Women in America by Charisse Jones, Kumea Shorter-Gooden ISBN: 0060090545 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 02 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Love by TONI MORRISON ISBN: 0375409440 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: No Secrets No Lies : How Black Families Can Heal from Sexual Abuse by ROBIN STONE ISBN: 0767913442 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 30 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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