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Shanika Ann Jenkins is the pride of her African-American family; smart, beautiful, and born with blue eyes and blonde hair. Though her grandmother and father are happy because she represents years of passing down light skin and marrying well, Shanika's mother insists on her name reflecting her African-American heritage so that she'll always be pleased with who she actually is. When Shanika has got the opportunity to help a PR firm in NY, she finds that everyone assumes she actually is white; she also notices that being white has it advantages, from getting respect at the job to getting picked up by way of a cab when other African-Americans are passed by. When she starts dating an effective white colleague, she continues with the lie, regardless of the guilt she feels at disappointing her mother and her heritage. When she falls for a handsome African-American business man, she must finally face who she actually is and what she's done, even if it means losing everything and everyone she loves.
