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The Woman-of-Color Nanny Novel - by Chris Jesu Lee

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How 'Luster,' 'Such A Fun Age,' and similar novels express tensions between white women and WOC in elite circles

The Woman-of-Color Nanny Novel How 'Luster,' 'Such A Fun Age,' and similar novels express tensions between white women and WOC in elite circles Chris Jesu Lee Jan 06, 2025 63 4 10 Share Sept. 9, 2024 cover for The New Yorker by R. Kikuo Johnson This essay was first published in the Volume 2.1 print issue of The Cleveland Review of Books 1 in 2024. The young nanny has long captured our collective imagination as a feminine ideal: youthful, vulnerable in a stranger’s home, and professionally obligated to please. She’s invariably beautiful, or at least sexually appealing in her availability, and i

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