Mohsin Hamid and Alora Young detail the impact of colorism in their stories
NPR's Book of the Day
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Introduction
The last white man is a speculative fiction book written by machin hamid about a white guy who turns not white. And he tells n pierr scott simon about how widespread and global our baggage about skin color is. To day, we've got two books that take widely different approaches to skin color. In a bit, we'll hear from a poet who is surprisingly blunt about what she sees in the color of her skin.
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