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Don't Play in the Sun.(Book Review)

By Carpenter, Emanuel
Publication: Reviewer's Bookwatch
Date: Sunday, August 1 2004

Don't Play in the Sun

Marita Golden

www.maritagolden.com

Doubleday

ISBN 0385507860 $23.95 200 pp.

The color complex has been a problem with African-Americans since the days of slavery, where the some of the lighter sons and daughters of slave owners were given preferential treatment over darker ones. In Marita Golden's (Migrations of the Heart) new memoir, "Don't Play in the Sun," she examines the intricacies of what it means to have grown up a dark-skinned African-American woman where women of lighter complexion were favor

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