‘Oh Lord, I want to be white’: The Ambivalence of mulatez in Carmen Colón Pellot's Ambar mulatto.

Examines the ambivalence of mulatez in "Ambar mulatto," a collection of poems written by Carmen Colón Pellot. Rhetorical treatment of mulatez as metaphor; Characterization of the mulata and her white counterpart in her poems; Details of Colón Pellot's discrimination between mulatto and black.