This collection addresses the idea of being a mixed girl telling the stories of what it feels like to be in her shoes. Being mixed race with black and white, having people look at you and not know what you are mixed with and not ask but just look at you wondering. In For a Black Girlwe hear the voice of a mixed girl sharing her experience of being good, talented, pretty but…only for a black girl. Then to get the compliment “You’re pretty for a black girl.” What is behind this comment? As if just being a black girl isn’t good enough to hold the compliment. And in Not Black Enough- Not White Enoughwe hear her voice share what it feels like to not be black enough or white enough to fit in or be accepted by any group. The feeling of isolation and loneliness that people feel when a group that they are a part of tells them that they don’t represent it enough to be accepted by the masses. The collection is a great example of what it feels like to look well put together on the outside and what it really feels like on the inside to be alone especially when it feels like an attack on their race, the main thing their parent gave to them.
