Piece Comment

Review of "Skin Deep Vox Pop"


Last week I reviewed Chelsea Alston’s piece “That Twenty Percent”, and when I found this one, I knew it deserved a review as well. Here, Alston provides a very fun and celebratory exploration into feelings about having brown skin. It is refreshing to hear her interviewees celebrating and loving their blackness, especially since the news about Treyvon Martin (and all of the young black and brown men shot before him simply because they looked “suspicious”) only further establishes that we live in an extremely white supremacist society. I commend Alston as well for not shying away from her exploration and including an alternative answer among the celebratory ones. I love this piece. I can’t wait to see what Alston has for us next!