Save the Pearls is a vanity published YA novel trying to bill itself as the next The Hunger Games. The publisher says that Save the Pearls turns the tables on racism.
It uses blackface as a plot device.
In author Victoria Foyts futuristic world, no one wants to mate with white peopleor pearlsconsidered to be the ugliest humans oppressed by people of color. In order to survive, they must put on blackface make up to be attractive to the ruling class of coals. Hoyt explains: their stunningly dark skin that carries the greatest amount of melanin makes them the strongest, most powerful race alive. The protagonist is a white girl who must smear her face with midnight luster make up in order to protect herself from radiation and in order to look beautiful to the oppressive coals in hopes that they will mate with her.
The rule in Edens post-apocalyptic world is: the darker the skin, the higher the mate-rate. Other factors calculated into ones mate-rate include wealth or employment status. For example, Ronson Bramford, a handsome Coal titan of industry, is at the top of the heap with a mate rate of 98%. At age twenty-two, he only has two years left in which to mateor else hed probably have a 100% mate-rate. Tigers-Eyes, or Latinos, usually rate above Ambers, or Asians, in the future race wars. White-skinned Pearls offer little resistance to The Heat, and therefore, are at the bottom. Only a Cotton, or Albino, would be lower.
http://www.savethepearls.com/
Book Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0AT6qxYBI4&feature=youtu.be
I guess now that Vampires, Werewolves, Fairies, Angels, Demons,etc are burned out black people are the new supernatural race belle de jour.