
Latinos tend to put Whiteness in the spotlight and it's hurting them, writers argue in new anthology
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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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