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SIGNIFICANT OTHERS Sandra Kitt July 1996 Onyx
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An African-American Brooklyn woman finds that her light complexion brings her trouble as she falls in love with a black businessman fighting his own struggle against prejudice. |
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Significant Others/Onyx Books 1995: My goal in this novel was to explore the ‘color complex’ in the black community. The whole skin color/light eyes/good hair controversy that pits light skin blacks against dark skin blacks and holds into question each other’s identity and blackness. Patricia Gilbert is a high school councilor who is black, but light skinned enough to pass for white. With her identify constantly in question, she understands the conflict facing one of her students, Kent, who is biracial and being forced by classmates to ‘pick a side’. But Patricia once again feels she must defend herself against Kent’s father, Morgan, a black man who is, at first, suspicious of her. |
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