Vanilla, Cinnamon and Dark Chocolate: The Color of Love

This fast-paced contemporary, novel, set in Los Angeles, can be read on a beach day. Yet, this is Black Literature in the Black Arts Movement tradition exploring how to overcome the trauma associated with colorism. Rejecting Wilderson's 'Afro pessimism', the lives of three women reveal how to decolonize and emancipate our minds per Ngg' and how to achieve 'collective consciousness' per Hübl. Vanilla, a Black woman of Puerto Rican ancestry favors the song, The Girl From Ipanema in that she is 'tall and tan and young and lovely' and like Sam Cooke's song says, "her daddy is rich and her mama is good lookin". Her brother, Howard, has a massive blond afro, olive skin, and green eyes, and is a deputy district attorney. He is vain and his fate is signaled by Proverbs 16:18 which prophesizes that - "Pride goeth before destruction."

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Dorch, Edwina Louise
Published: 06/28/2022
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781663234056
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.24lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.21d