Don't Play in the Sun: One Woman's Journey Through the Color Complex

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Doubleday, 2004 - Biography & Autobiography - 195 pages
"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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My Own
3
A Family Affair
21
Silences and Secrets 50
50
Copyright

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About the author (2004)

MARITA GOLDEN has written both fiction and nonfiction, includingMigrations of the Heart,The Edge of Heaven,A Miracle Every Day, andSaving Our Sons. She is the editor ofWild Women Don’t Wear No Blues: Black Women Writers on Love, Men and Sexand the coeditor ofGumbo: An Anthology of African American Writingand ofSkin Deep: Black Women and White Women Write About Race. She is the founder and CEO of the Hurston/Wright Foundation, which supports African American writers, and lives in Maryland. Please visit Marita at www.maritagolden.com.

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