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I figured I would ask this question here because maybe most of you will understand where i'm coming from.
As you know i'm AA and DH is CC. When we got the call from the agency for DS they said we have a BR boy for you. Later I found out that his bmom was BR and bdad (far as I know) is AA. Now too "ME" I grew up with the one drop rule etc... and I just saw him as AA. I guess in my head he can only be BR if he was 1/2 AA & 1/2 CC. So when people asked if he's BR I say no he's AA.
Well I've been thinking lately because I am in a interracial relationship people ALWAYS assume he's our bio child. I was wondering when he gets older how will he identify himself. Just AA? Or because of DH say BR? and is that the truth? I was talking to DH about it the other day he says I have always saw DS as BR because his bGrandma is CC and therefore he is mutilracial. I know DS bmom family is Danish and I have pic's of them with thier CC cousins, aunts, uncles etc... in Denmark.
So am I wrong for just saying he's AA? Is he BR? I am in no way saying my way of thinking is correct. I would love to hear your thoughts. I just feel when I say he's just AA I'm not really honoring his Danish side.
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I think that book is out of print but I'll keep looking for it. In the one I think you are talking about the man didn't find out till he was an adult that his mom was white.
Here's another one except everyone knows his mother's race.....
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
James McBride (Author)
Here's a series of stories... it was considered strange to pass from white to black.
Near Black: White-to-Black Passing in American Culture
Baz Dreisinger (Author)
Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
Martha A. Sandweiss (Author)
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Make sure you catch the original 1934 version of it with Fredi Washington. In that version the character was called Peola instead of Sarah Jane. It was actually played by a black person. Claudette Colbert played the role that Lana Turner had in the 1959 version.
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredi_Washington]Fredi Washington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url]
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Make sure you catch the original 1934 version of it with Fredi Washington. In that version the character was called Peola instead of Sarah Jane. It was actually played by a black person. Claudette Colbert played the role that Lana Turner had in the 1959 version.
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredi_Washington]Fredi Washington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url]
Lena Horne was supposed to play Julie in Showboat too. The role was given to Ava Gardner even though Lena had played the role before. Max Factor had created a makeup for Lena called "Little Egyptian" because they thought she was too light for movies. They used that very makeup on Gardner in Showboat. Lena had it in her contract that she wouldn't play maids. She did the best she could given the time frame.
Speaking of the South not wanting to see things...
When Nat King Cole had a TV show back in the day it was not televised in the South because the TV stations got so many threats.
It was so rare to see a black person on TV when I was growing up we used to get "black person on TV" calls. Someone would always call to let us know when someone black was on a television show. Jet magazine used to list all the TV shows each week that had a black character on it. We've come a long way.
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Pinky and Imitation of Life have characters who pass for white.
Pinky was sent North to nursing school by her washer woman mother. The school assumed she was white so she rolled with it and even met a CC doctor she wanted to marry. She told him the truth and he still wanted to marry her but they had to live somewhere nobody knew them. Her mom expected her to return home to work in the AA community. So her quandry was hiding who she was or living up to her mom's expectations. A plot twist was that she ended up as a nurse for one of her mom's wealthy CC clients and the woman left Pinky her estate. Pinky then had to fight the woman's relatives to keep it.
Imitation of Life contrasts the lives of an up and coming movie star played by Lana Tuner in the 1959 version and her maid played by Juanita Moore. It showed their rise from poverty and their relationships with their daughters. The maid's DD decided to pass for white which held some of the most dramatic scenes in the movie. Pretty good movie...