It shares the first-hand view of Nellie Lee Love and her multigenerational enterprising family. In an attempt to piece together the remnants of her life, Bridget discovers a trail of betrayal that started when she was a young child living at a group home-a trail that starts and ends with Jade Smith, a manipulative so-called friend. Color Me Dark is a beautifully crafted children’s book. Despite the fact that her husband is black, she gives birth to twins-a girl named Jasmine, dark-skinned with dark hair and eyes, and blond-haired, blue-eyed Jacob.
I was startled when I read in the Author's Note that, "Even though the characters in this are fictional, their story is a real one." I think there is always a fine line when writing historical fiction and I thought the inclusion of an epilogue that reads as if it is history was confusing. The statement that Erma Jean became a well-known poet and playwright and Nellie Lee worked closely with Eleanor Roosevelt led me to believe that the characters were actual people from history. The Epilogue continues the story with comments on both girls' adult lives. Wells-Barnett) events (the Great Migration, The Chicago Riot) organizations and periodicals ( The Provident Hospital, NAACP, and The Crisis) are referenced throughout this story and further explained in the Historical Note. McKissack expertly wove the history of this tumultuous period into this novel. But what I loved most, was that they were all female protagonists.
COLOR ME DARK HOW TO
I missed not seeing Nellie learn how to live in her own skin. to the vibrant, Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North.
COLOR ME DARK SKIN
Erma Jean was more comfortable with her skin color and Nellie was less accepting of the fact that she was light-skinned. If anything, I would have liked to see more tension between the girls over the differences between them. When you try to push me off on people, you make me feel even worse." (p. Many of the characters also appear in the film and stage play. To her credit, Erma Jean speaks up for herself and says, "Being black is not a bad thing. All of the characters that appear in Patricia C. A reference to her sister wanting a skin product that will lighten her skin was poignant: their mother's response is to "Live in the skin you are in." After Erma Jean starts to talk again, Nellie tries to protect her from being ostracized for not having "prettier" light skin. I appreciated her innocent confusion when her best friend gets her hair "fixed" and doesn't want it to "go back" to being kinky. I was particularly interested in Nellie's observations about skin color. Nellie's voice is authentic as she struggles with her uncle's death and her sister's silence moving from a rural small southern town to a big northern city and her desire to "Color me dark," so her light skin won't mark her as different than other Coloreds.
COLOR ME DARK SERIES
This upper elementary school book by Patricia McKissack, is a part of the Dear America series and written in diary format. In the spring of 1919 when their uncle's murder is covered up, Erma Jean becomes unable to speak and is sent north to Chicago to see if physicians can cure her "hysteria." Soon afterwards their father decides that Chicago would offer more opportunities for a Colored family than Tennessee and the family moves north. Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love is the light-skinned sister and confidant to her darker and 10-months-older sister, Erma Jean.
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