: To accentuate her skin, Bride wears only white clothes, a choice that commodifies her blackness into a commercial product for a "mainstream" gaze.
: Her journey into the rural "Whisky Village" serves as a reconfiguration of her identity, moving away from white-dominated urban spaces and back toward a self that "celebrates difference". V. Conclusion Toni (2015)
: Sweetness justifies her coldness and physical distancing from Bride as a survival tactic, believing that "midnight black" skin was a liability in the mid-20th century. : To accentuate her skin, Bride wears only
: " Sweetness " (February 2015) — Published in The New Yorker . : To accentuate her skin