In this chapter, I look at inter-skin colour relations in the television programme Taboo (1993) along with Barbara Burford's novella, The Threshing Floor (1986) and Ann Allen Shockley's The Mistress and the Slave Girl (1987). In looking at these examples I discuss the internal dichotomies of racial self-denial and the positioning of the Black author. This authorship and ownership dyad is explored with the aim of highlighting the methods that some Black writers use in attempts to counter homogeneity in an assumed heterogeneous white culture. (198)