Mambo Sauce by Camille Acker explores gentrification and cultural identity in Washington D.C.
- The story follows Constance, a young Black woman in an interracial relationship, as she navigates her new neighborhood in Far Northeast D.C.
- Themes include cultural displacement, racial dynamics, and the complexities of gentrification
- Constance's journey highlights the tension between embracing local culture and inadvertently contributing to neighborhood changes
- The Mambo Sauce short story uses the titular condiment as a symbol for D.C.'s changing cultural landscape