Forced to call upon a bigoted bellboy for help, they located Nigel deep in the forest, mysteriously swimming naked in a creek. In Chapter 6, Penny and the narrator again lost track of Nigel, while attending a retreat at the law firm’s plantation-turned-hotel. The narrator and Nigel entered a private agreement to continue using the painful skin cream, which the narrator assured his son was for his own good. Penny, a white woman and a strong proponent of racial justice, scorned the narrator for supplying Nigel with the cream after promising her to stop. The narrator rushed to the school and wish his wife, Penny, they tried coaxing Nigel out of the closet where he hid after a classmate ridiculed him for using a skin bleaching cream. In Chapter 4, the narrator’s meeting with his cunning boss, Octavia Whitmore, was interrupted by an emergency call from Nigel’s school. In Chapter 3, he learned that his performance worked, setting forth an official track toward promotion. Recognizing that the party was secretly a competition to determine which of the three black associates would progress with the firm, the narrator donned a Zulu chief costume and danced wildly in front of the white partners. Told from the first-person perspective of the unnamed narrator, an associate at a corporate law firm, the novel opens to the firm’s annual costume party.
Shaped by the pernicious form of racism in society, the narrator seeks to guarantee a better life for his only son, Nigel. In the novel’s satirical landscape, racism has not gone away, just more unacceptable to talk about.
Maurice Ruffin’s novel We Cast a Shadow is a story about a black man living in a near-distant future American South.
The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Ruffin, Maurice.
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