Next week on Code Switch.

If you're the lightest shade of brown,

because of my skin tone, I will never be in danger the way, um,

like actual people of color might be.

Is it cool to call yourself a person of color?

Yeah, I absolutely want to own my space as a woman of color,

as a feminist woman of color. I'll go even further, right?

I talked with Maria Inohosa, author of Once I Was You,

a memoir of love and hate in the torn America,

and Maria Garcia, the host of the Anything for Selena podcast

about La Fini Dad and light skin privilege.

That's next week.

Now on to the show.

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I'm Shireen Marisol Maraji.

I was wondering. I'm Jean Demby.

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