This Bridge Called My Back. Quintanales, for example, states: “Yes, lighter-than-black skin color may confer on some ethnic minority women the option of becoming ‘assimilated,’ ‘integrated,’ in mainstream American society. But is this really a privilege when it always means having to become invisible, those-like, identity-less, community-less, totally alienated? The perils of ‘passing’ as white Americans are perils indeed.”79
