From 45 to Biden: Mixed-Race Meditations on White Skin Privilege and Neo-Marxism
Born the white-looking bastard son of a dark-skinned Virginia woman in the segregated ‘50s, I easily identify with Fredi Washington’s “Peola,” a light-skinned lass passing for white, in the 1934 film classic “Imitation of Life.” “White passing” is a loathsome, offensive phrase. No one is responsible for the physical cues that others take from one’s…