Hale explains, "for light-skinned blacks, segregation blurred the problem of confused appearances it had been created to solve" (193).
How does segregation flaunt white southerners's anxieties over visibility and racial ambiguity?
How is passing paradoxically resistive to racial codes of identification--in that due to the faulty visual markers of race, the passing individual can undermine segregation's reliance on racial visibility as anchored to biology...
How is white hegemony systematically maintained by restricting the category of whiteness to only those with 100% white ancestry, thereby reinforcing notions of white purity, and using the one-drop rule to classify even those with 'one-eighth black blood' as black?
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