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White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing Writing Assignment
African American History 2382
After reading this powerful story of self-discovery, students will discuss the author’s changing views of her mother, the choice to pass as a white woman during 20th Century America. 
In your responses, use direct quotes, complete sentence and supporting examples from the textbook (White Like Her and From Slavery to Freedom). 
1). What events occurred in Jim Crow Louisiana and the South that caused the author’s mother to make this decision? How did her mother successfully exist in two separate worlds? Review the chapters that address 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s.
2). What events happened that caused the author to question her mother’s ethnicity, and how would you react if you discovered someone in a family passed for another race?
3). How did the author find forgiveness and acceptance of her mother and personal identity?  
4). Historically speaking and reflecting on the From Slavery to Freedom reading material, would you be supportive if you discovered a family secret of passing? Consider the Plessy v. Ferguson case, WWII, Civil Rights and the those events that alters your life and perspective in the 21st?