Amy answers “I wondered if there were really any towns...”

Ginger asked this question about The Vanishing Half:

I wondered if there were really any towns like Mallard in the post-slavery South that we’re made up of light-skinned blacks. Did they exist?

Amy I once saw a play "The Blue Vein Society" in the 1980s at SUNY Cortland that explores "Class and Color within Black America" and was set in the 1880s.…moreI once saw a play "The Blue Vein Society" in the 1980s at SUNY Cortland that explores "Class and Color within Black America" and was set in the 1880s. I kept thinking of that play as I read this book. Turns out the playwright taught at SUNY and coincidentally his childhood sounds a bit like Early's.(less)

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