Short stories tagged with Colorism

Listing 9 stories.

When she meets another girl in detention, a girl considers what it means to be beautiful.

A young Black woman grows up to the realization that the snakes living in her hair have a special power imbued to them by history.

A Trinidadian blogger gets turned into a bird through an elaborate obeah sorcery racket—orchestrated by her very own boyfriend.

A Black mail clerk faces potential unemployment when the white woman he likes files a workplace sexual harassment complaint against him.

Louise, a humble "honey-colored" slave, gains a new master whose wife loves to paint. The master leaves town, and Louise must endure an uncomfortable few weeks posing naked for his wife.

A young girl dreams of becoming the first famous Dominican geologist, but when her brother commits suicide, she must abandon her dreams and take care of her family.

After three bodies wash up on shore in her town, a teenage girl grapples with her dead twin sister's struggle with self-harm and suicidal thoughts, all while she tries to live her own life.

A well-known Black singer and actor prepares to leave Paris and expose himself and his family to the racism of the United States once again.

A four-year-old black boy vaguely recalls a mixture of occurrences that puzzled him, including a sentenced hanging in his town of a man who allegedly murdered his wife.