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Why does the narrator say that often African Americans marry people lighter than them

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White supremacy is also internalized among black Americans, especially elites; the narrator’s own cultural snobbishness and ultimate decision to give up his blackness are proof enough, but he also discusses, for instance, wealthy black people’s tendency to marry people with “lighter complexions” and “whiten” the next generation.

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