
Still from “Find your True Match with Beyoncé” by L’Oreal
Racial PassingCenturies
ago, before Black was defined as beautiful, those individuals whose
features (nose, hair, lips) and color suggested European ancestry hid
the origins
of their one Black parent and “passed.” These offspring
were generally the result
of a liaison between a white man and Black
woman, and on occasion, between a
Black man and a white woman. The
latter unions were often the motivation for
lynchings in an... Continue reading ...