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Bright Skin: A Novel Paperback - 1998
by Julia Mood Peterkin
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Details
- Title Bright Skin: A Novel
- Author Julia Mood Peterkin
- Binding Paperback
- Condition New
- Pages 360
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Univ of Georgia Pr
- Date 1998
- Bookseller's Inventory # x-0820319546
- ISBN 9780820319544 / 0820319546
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 7.52 x 5.19 x 0.8 in (19.10 x 13.18 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97037356
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
From the rear cover
A dissection of social upheaval, Bright Skin is Julia Peterkin's most sophisticated book, dealing with urban migration, miscegenation, illegitimacy, and racism from the low country of South Carolina to the streets of Harlem. The story of Cricket and Blue - a woman who leaves and a man left behind - is at the heart of the African American experience. As technology replaced manual labor on the plantation, thousands of descendants of slaves made their way north to jobs in the cities, where black separatism flourished. Peterkin writes of these changing times with keen perception and descriptive brilliance in Bright Skin - a story of getting ahead by getting away, rejecting the past and embracing a new future.