One of her ten best books for children and teenagers which are about black characters, as shared at the Guardian:Noughts & Crosses by Malorie BlackmanRead about the other entries on the list.
In this series the people with dark skin are the ruling class and everyone else is the underclass. Reversing race roles sounds simple, but the trouble with privilege is that people try to understand someone else's experience by comparing it to their own. What Blackman does here is offer an alternative history altogether.
--Marshal Zeringue
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