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Color struck, high yellow, Oreo, red-bone, ink spot and spade are all terms used when defining conflicts within the
Black community. Parade of Shades, a debut novel, shows both sides of this prejudice.
span style="font-size: larger;">span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">All of her life Karen Baker reacts to people who praise or resent her tawny complextion. When her mother abandons the family, a biracial (Arab/White) mentor briefly steps into place and begins a change in Karen. She quickly learns everything has a price. For instance, her entertainment choices are even more unpopular among her classmates than her vocabulary. Lacking a sense of belonging, Karen feels misunderstood in high school and defensive in college. Her failed relationships with men of various ethnic groups mak | |  | | Parade of Shades 2nd Edition
Parade of Shades is updated by the original publisher, Propertius Press, with new edits.
span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Happy Re-Launch for Jewel Hopson's 2nd edition of her seminal work, PARADE OF SHADES! This novel follows the coming of age of Karen Baker, as she grows up and enters college, and after as she navigates the adult world of dating, work, and friendships. Her attitudes about others also grow and emerge as she learns, through a series of real world experiences, how to address her own internalized prejudices about educational attainment and skin color. The book also details her family lif | |  | | Spicy Spinsters: Stories of Seasoned Bachelorettes
Happily ever after doesn't always include Prince Charming. Spicy Spinsters is a collection of short stories about middle age women who have never had husbands. The characters emerge from various economic, ethnic and moral backgrounds. From the virgen to the high-class call girl, from the office clerk to the hospital oncologist, these women represent those of us who helped shape today's society as well those continuing to adjust to independence thrust upon them. Embracing spinsterhood, the women in Spicy Spinsters are like the treasured spices symbolizing them at the beginning of each tale.
Spicy Spinsters: Stories of Seasoned Bachelorettes is a collection of fictional, short stories about women between 38 and 65 years of age who have never married. Each tale begins with a spice relating to the character’s personality or situation. These twenty-one stories are sometimes insightful, sometimes funny and sometimes a little sad. They represent unmarried feminists who helped change the role of women in the Western Hemisphere as well as those who continue adjusting to independence thrust upon them.
div>The women in Spicy Spinsters: Stories of Seas |
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