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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