Light Skin Gone to Waste: Stories Johnson Toni Ann
Light Skin Gone to Waste: Stories Johnson Toni Ann In 1962 Philip Arrington, a psychologist with a PhD from Yeshiva, arrives in the small, mostly blue-collar town of Monroe, New York, to rent a house…
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Light Skin Gone to Waste: Stories Johnson Toni Ann
In 1962 Philip Arrington, a psychologist with a PhD from Yeshiva, arrives in the small, mostly blue-collar town of Monroe, New York, to rent a house for himself and his new wife. With that, we're introduced to the Arringtons: Phil, Velma, his daughter Livia (from a previous marriage), and his youngest, Madeline, soon to be born. They're Black, something the man about to show him the house doesn't know.
Sophisticated. They're cosmopolitan. They're also troubled, arrogant, and throughout the linked stories, falling apart.We follow the family as Phil begins his private practice, as Velma opens her antiques shop, and as they buy new homes, collect art, go skiing, and have overseas adventures.
It seems they've made it in the white world. However, young Maddie, one of the only Black children in town, bears the brunt of the racism and the invisible barriers her family's money,