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Don't play in the sun : one woman's journey through the color complex / Marita Golden.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Doubleday, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Edition: First editionDescription: 195 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0385507860
  • 9780385507868
Other title:
  • Don't play in the sun : One woman's journey through the colour complex
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.48896073 21
LOC classification:
  • E185.86 .G625 2004
Contents:
Scenes from the color complex: (my own) -- Color: a family affair -- Silences and secrets -- Imitation of life: or, the revolution will not be televised -- Mirror on the wall -- Sisters under the skin -- Grand slam -- Far from home -- Zora and me -- Letter to a young black girl I know.
Review: "To be sure, this book is not a pity party - but, rather, a nuanced look at identity, and the irrepressible and graceful will of the human spirit. Peppering her narrative with "Postcards from the Color Complex," reminiscences of some of the author's most powerful experiences, Golden takes us inside her world, and inside her heart, to show what a half-century of intraracial and interracial personal politics looks like. We come to see the world through the eyes of the young Marita, and the dualism that existed in her own home: the ebony-hued father, who cherished her and taught her to be "black and proud," and the lighter-skinned mother, who one summer afternoon admonished Marita while she was outside, "Come on in the house - it's too hot to be playing out there. I've told you don't play in the sun, 'cause as it is, you gonna have to get a light-skinned husband for the sake of your children."" "At every turn in her life - in high school, her black power college days, as a young married woman in Africa, as a college professor, as an accomplished author, and even today - race and color are the inescapable veils through which Golden has been viewed."--BOOK JACKET.
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Scenes from the color complex: (my own) -- Color: a family affair -- Silences and secrets -- Imitation of life: or, the revolution will not be televised -- Mirror on the wall -- Sisters under the skin -- Grand slam -- Far from home -- Zora and me -- Letter to a young black girl I know.

"To be sure, this book is not a pity party - but, rather, a nuanced look at identity, and the irrepressible and graceful will of the human spirit. Peppering her narrative with "Postcards from the Color Complex," reminiscences of some of the author's most powerful experiences, Golden takes us inside her world, and inside her heart, to show what a half-century of intraracial and interracial personal politics looks like. We come to see the world through the eyes of the young Marita, and the dualism that existed in her own home: the ebony-hued father, who cherished her and taught her to be "black and proud," and the lighter-skinned mother, who one summer afternoon admonished Marita while she was outside, "Come on in the house - it's too hot to be playing out there. I've told you don't play in the sun, 'cause as it is, you gonna have to get a light-skinned husband for the sake of your children."" "At every turn in her life - in high school, her black power college days, as a young married woman in Africa, as a college professor, as an accomplished author, and even today - race and color are the inescapable veils through which Golden has been viewed."--BOOK JACKET.

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