Compare the personal experience described in The Skin I’m In with that of either James McBride’s The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother OR Bliss Broyard’s One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life—A Story of Race and Family Secrets to explain how skin color, race, and social stigmas are or are not intertwined.

Essay Assignment: Write a 2-3-page comparative analytical essay on Sharon Flake’s 1998 novel, The Skin I’m In. 

In your essay, you must:

  • Summarize the novel and present a thesis statement in the introduction.
  • Argue whether or not colorism is an issue in American society.
  • Compare the personal experience described in The Skin I’m In with that of either James McBride’s The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother OR Bliss Broyard’s One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life—A Story of Race and Family Secrets to explain how skin color, race, and social stigmas are or are not intertwined.
  • Answer in the conclusion, does multiracialism complicate or facilitate race relations in American society?

Directions:

Write an essay that answers each open-ended question listed above. The paper should begin with an introduction that includes a thesis statement stating what you plan to argue. The conclusion should not summarize information from the body of the paper, but give concluding ideas or predictions about what your analysis of this memoir tells us about immigrant-citizen relations today.

The entire paper should be free of spelling and grammatical errors. The font size and style should be legible and easy to read (preferably 12-point font, Times New Roman). This assignment must be completed individually and written in your own words. If you use quotes or paraphrase sentences from a secondary source (e.g., book, article, documentary), then cite these sources in the text according to the Chicago Manual of Style. If you knowingly commit plagiarism of someone else’s work, then you will automatically receive a failing grade for the assignment.

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