Colorstruck

Download or Read eBook Colorstruck PDF written by Benita Porter and published by B Q Publishing Company. This book was released on 1990 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Colorstruck
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Book Synopsis Colorstruck by : Benita Porter

Book excerpt: First person narrative by white-looking black author who chronicles lives of white looking black fraternal twins Chloe/Solomon Bechet who escape from New Orleans KKK to Harlem, NY. Both enter 1920's show business, she as a black dancer/actress, he as a white stuntman/director. Behind the scene fiction expose on passing for white, inter/intraracial conflicts, skin color stereotypes, Harlem renaissance, Hollywood, New Orleans, Jazz music, black/indians in entertainment 1900-1936.


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