(This is terrible, so forgive me in advance... )
My best friend shortly after college, ca. 1984, was a (white) literature master's-degree student in Boston Univ., with a black bf (whom I of course lusted after, in my heart as they say). But she could not resist referring to Alice Walker's (quite corny & superficial) book pictured above, & the movie therefrom which had just come out to great &, so far as the two of us could tell, entirely unwarranted acclaim, as...
The Colored People