Latinos tend to put Whiteness in the spotlight and it's hurting them, writers argue in new anthology
CNN
Saraciea J. Fennell remembers how normal it seemed for her, her siblings and cousins, to use bleaching cream on their elbows and knees every day growing up. As dark-skinned Latinos, that's what they had been taught to do.
"Once I got older, I realized it was an anti-Black practice because I was not being allowed to love the skin that I'm in," said Fennell, a Black Honduran writer based in New York City and editor of a new collection of essays and poems titled, "Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed."
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