From White to Black: The Story of a Black Family that Started off White

ISBN-13: 9781499709902 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 238 str.

Tracy M. Lewis Ph. D.

Opis

Where did I come from? Who were my grandparents and my great-grandparents? Where did they come from? And why were there so many people with light skin and white features in my family? My inner city friends in Los Angeles had been instructing me for years to -get back to my roots.- I was finally going to take their advice. Reconnecting with my family was the first step. In -From White to Black- author, Tracy Lewis tells the story of her family, who had been White for over 80 years, until being reclassified as Black in 1930 when the one-drop rule and its miscegenation laws and ensuing segregation forever changed their lives and the lives of thousands of American families. The sudden reclassification subjected her family and many families to racism, segregation, and to the traumatic loss of identity, status, and friendships. In -From White to Black- Lewis examines the reasoning behind the one-drop rule, White supremacy and the idea of racial-purity, and she shines a revealing light on racial classification, skin color prejudice, racism, and reversed racism in the 21st century.

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