#COLOR ME IN BY NATASHA DIAZ SKIN#
Living with her maternal side of the family, Nevaeh confronts feelings of confusion, guilt, and shame when facing multiple situations where she is treated positively because of her light skin color while witnessing her family and friends in the same community treated differently because of their shades-of-brown skin. A powerful coming-of-age novel pulled from personal experience about the meaning of friendship, the joyful beginnings of romance, and the racism and religious intolerance that can both strain a family to the breaking point and strengthen its bonds. Like Its hard to hear people imply that you cant be who you know you are because your reality doesnt jibe with how theyve. When her Black mom and Jewish dad split up, she relocates to her mom's family home in Harlem and is forced to confront her identity for the first time. Like As small puddles begin to collect, I root my feet to the ground, solid and ready to start anew. It is Nevaeh’s story, one about a high-school aged young woman forced to deal with the effects of polarizing social categories: Christianity and Judaism white-skinned and dark-skinned upper social class and blue-collar working class.īecause of her parents’ recent separation, Nevaeh and her mother have moved away from their bougie community where Nevaeh has lived most of her life secluded from her extended family to a community of color and her mother’s people. Title: Color Me In Author: Natasha Diaz Who is Nevaeh Levitz Growing up in an affluent suburb of New York City, sixteen-year-old Nevaeh Levitz never thought much about her biracial roots.
Color Me In is a coming-of-age YA novel about the important role defining one’s identity is in an individual’s journey to come-of-age. Color Me In Natasha Daz, Click to preview A powerful coming-of-age novel pulled from personal experience about the meaning of friendship, the joyful beginnings of romance, and the racism and religious intolerance that can both strain a family to the breaking point and strengthen its bonds.
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