Imogen’s Reviews > Such a Fun Age > Status Update

I'm really compelled by the presentation of two different sides of racism from the perspective of those in a single Black woman's life. Her white boyfriend has issues with fetishizing women of color, and her employer has issues with putting women of color on pedestals while paying them too little, and when they come together it's a great insight into microaggressions.

This is probably a result of my course reading, but this reads a bit like a case study--"Emira, a 25-year-old African American woman, works as a nanny for a wealthy white family. One day, while taking the young girl she nannies for to a local health food market, she is approached by a security guard, who tells her another customer is concerned that she is not the girl's caretaker. What went wrong in this encounter?"