Back When Skin Color was Destiny-Unless You Passed for White
“Back When Skin Color was Destiny- Unless You Passed for White”, was an article written in the New York Times by Brent Staples. This article tells us about Anatole Broyard a light-skinned black man who made believe he was a white man. This was Mr. Broyard’s only way to achieve his goal to someday become a famous writer.
Mr. Broyard looked up to Novelist Phillip Roth. Mr. Roth wrote about his strug