This is a 27 minute snippet from Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: A Story of Success where he delves into the painful yet eye-opening legacy of race, skin color, slavery, academic achievement, and power in the West Indies. He is not afriad to deal with painful truths, but with each cut there is healing at every turn.
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The Tragic Mulatto Myth is Interesting post I bumped into as I was looking for a thumbnail image for this post. Literary and cinematic portrayals of the tragic mulatto emphasized her personal pathologies: self-hatred, depression, alcoholism, sexual perversion, and suicide attempts being the most common. If light enough to "pass" as White, she did, but passing led to deeper self-loathing.
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