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The Blacker the Berry
Hardcover
Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781667667928
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: May 26 2026
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Emma Lou Morgan is cursed with a complexion too black for acceptance. In her hometown of Boise, Idaho, the local 'blue vein' society-light-skinned African Americans who prize near-whiteness-shuns her at every turn. Desperate to escape the small-mindedness, she heads to Los Angeles for college, certain that a larger, more cosmopolitan city will offer her the belonging she craves.
But colorism follows her. Even among fellow Black students, she finds herself judged by the shade of her skin, caught between disgust for those she deems too vulgar and the cold shoulder of those who deem her too dark. As she navigates friendships, romance, and the quest for identity, Emma Lou confronts the devastating reality that prejudice lives within her own community as deeply as outside it.
A searing novel of the Harlem Renaissance, The Blacker the Berry lays bare the internalized racism that fractures souls and families, revealing how the pursuit of acceptance can become its own prison.
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