The Black librarian who rewrote the rules of power, gender and passing as white
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The Black librarian who rewrote the rules of power, gender and passing as white
Yet I’m often asked whether Greene mentions her passing as white in her writings. She did not. Greene was one of hundreds of thousands of light-skinned Black Americans who passed as white in the ...
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The Black librarian who rewrote the rules of power, gender and passing as white
(THE CONVERSATION) “Just Because I am a Librarian doesn’t mean I have to dress like one.” With this breezy pronouncement, Belle da Costa Greene handily differentiated herself from most ...