BY WALTER OPINDE Racial passing refers to a phenomenon that occurs when an individual who is a member of a particular ethnic group is also, knowingly or unknowingly, accepted as a member of another racial group. During the period just after the end of slavery, very many African-Americans were masquerading as whites in order to […]
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