Desiree’s Baby by Fury Borges Diaz

As I read “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin, I couldn’t imagine living in an era where my value as a human being was determined by my skin color. I ask myself if I would have been considered an Afro-Cuban and treated like a slave just because my father is a “Quadroon” (1/4 African)? Would my father’s skin color, heritage and ethnicity make me an “Octaroon” (1/8 African) regardless of the fact that my skin is lighter than most Caucasian’s?
“Desiree’s Baby” by K. Chopin is set in the early nineteen hundreds, just before the American Civil War. In that era, slavery was legal and people who had traces of African descent were treated worse than insects. It was an era when a human’s value and social status were measured by the color of their skin. Chopin writes about the importance of social status and the importance of race versus love, family, dignity, pride and honor. In addition, the story is an example of what......

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Title: Desiree's Baby
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