Where Beauty Means Bleached Skin Summary

In the article, “Where Beauty Means Bleached Skin”, the author Helene Cooper explains that many of the women are living in West Africa, has different skin colors that are confused to other people to know who is who even though they are African which everyone shares their own stories about their skins which shown that “For my part, I am a native of Liberia, but a descendant of the freed American slaves who colonized the country in 1822 and who had mated at one point or another with American whites, so I’m more of a coffee with milk, considered light-skinned by West African standards. Eugenia, from Larteh in Ghana’s eastern region, has a deep chocolate bark complexion. She is a head-turner. (Cooper)” which this person told about her heritage