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Anatole Broyard and Passing For White

Anatole Broyard


Anatole Broyard

Anatole Broyard and Passing for White…born into the rigid racial caste system of the nineteen-twenties Deep South, the gifted New York Times literary critic Anatole Broyard died a country squire in Connecticut in 1990. His secret – that he was “passing” for white in an utterly race-conscious America – was disclosed to his daughter only at the  end of his life. Read More

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