Colorstruck
Books | Fiction / General
Benita Porter
First person narrative by white-looking black author who chronicles lives of white looking black fraternal twins Chloe/Solomon Bechet who escape from New Orleans KKK to Harlem, NY. Both enter 1920's show business, she as a black dancer/actress, he as a white stuntman/director. Behind the scene fiction expose on passing for white, inter/intraracial conflicts, skin color stereotypes, Harlem renaissance, Hollywood, New Orleans, Jazz music, black/indians in entertainment 1900-1936.