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Nov 19, 2021 · Kelly McWilliams writes about being a light-skinned Black woman, the one time she intentionally passed for white and the grief she felt about that decision.
- Kelly Mcwilliams
A young, light-skinned African-American woman, tired of discrimination, decides to move away from home and pass for white, as the title says. With lightning speed she gets married to a wealthy white man, but, predictably, gets tied up in knots trying to hide her past.
Bernice Lee (Sonya Wilde) is a young woman of mixed African and European ancestry, living in Chicago with her family, and she is mistaken for a fully white woman by a white man, who tries to hit on her repeatedly. Her brother, more obviously of mixed heritage, fights off the man.
A young, light-skinned African-American woman, tired of discrimination, decides to move away from home and pass for white, as the title says. With lightning speed she gets married to a wealthy white man, but, predictably, gets tied up in knots trying to hide her past.
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- Drama
- Fred M. Wilcox
- 1960-03-18
Sep 17, 2020 · It was not uncommon for those who ran away from slavery to be described as being able “to pass” or “pass for” various states of other-than-Black. Cutter notes that such racial passing could “constitute a challenge” to a racial ideology based on white superiority and Black inferiority.
Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American teenager who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store.
Aug 19, 2019 · Historian Stephanie Jones-Rogers explains how white women’s active “investment” in slavery has shaped America today.
