Book #139 of 2021: Passing by Nella Larsen An interesting 1929 novella about a black woman’s friend crossing the color line to present as white instead. The racial insights (and potential queer subtext) from almost a century ago are worth checking out, but the ending plays into the regrettable trope of the ‘tragic mulatto’ — …
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