Talk:Anita Florence Hemmings

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Kudos, user:BFpage on the picture add, I linked to it but couldn't source it to the public domain. Thanks Robco311 12:39, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

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There is a question of whether leaving out the terms 'Bi-Racial' and 'Multi-Racial' from the article detracts from the larger topic of what 'Passing' means, especially to afro-americans. Examining questions of race many whites (culturally) don't really see what the hullabaloo is with being 'black', or what it means to be black in america. The one drop rule is where the 'passing' became possible and if someone were researching the topic of 'passing' and what that means to whites, then the terms Bi-racial and multi-racial are significant to the topic. Barack Obama is Bi-racial, yet to most white americans, he is the first African-american president of the US. But he is not 'passing' for white. In 1897, he would have been just another mulatto, and due to his complexion and features, would not have been able to convince anyone, black or white, that he was not of negro descent. He could not have 'passed'. Yet, contrast that with Dwight D. Eisenhower, the first 'black american president'. His blood ties qualify him as 'passing', something most americans never got a hold of. (They did bring it into the presidential campaign, but his record in the war trumped.) It was debunked, but from there it descends into a question of whom do you believe? See: African-American heritage of United States presidents

In passing, most Multi-Racial notables do so for economic gain, not social standing. They mostly go by under the radar, so to speak, like aliens in a strange land, forever cognizant that they might be 'called out', especially by others of their own race who see beneath the veneer of 'white' respectability, hence - 'he got a little black blood in him' and winks and nods knowingly partaking of the charade. Passing is not the show and tell sanitized in media, it is the mortifying rigour experienced by Anita upon being outed at Vassar. She graduated, returned to Boston chastened, and disappeared into the shadows of the library. The media followed trying to prod her to make sensational statements and didn't succeed. When she married it was also to try to disappear from view, moving to NYC and settling on upper Broadway. To all outward appearances the 'white' family Love, the doctor from Harvard, with his pretty wife, the kids in Horace Mann and summering in cape cod at a wasp all white campground, it is what passing is.

I think a category: Passing should be created so we can fill it with hundreds of notable multi-racial persons who are in the see also section. The title of the section, Multi-Racial Notables, isn't outing anyone in this day and age, it's just a learning tool to hi-lite how it was then, even into the 60's and 70's. Robco311 12:05, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

I found the section, Passing (racial identity) and am working on it... — Preceding unsigned comment added by BeeCeePhoto (talk • contribs) 21:04, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

An extensive lexicon is in the article 'Multiracial American' Robco311 13:05, 6 May 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by BeeCeePhoto (talk • contribs)

Date of death
Someone has changed this from 1943 to 1960, and I can't find a source for either date. Any help? 2601:188:0:ABE6:3CF7:E4A2:6CC5:354F (talk) 14:15, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

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Movie to be made on A.F.Hemmings Life story
See where the edits have taken a toll on the original history, as seen by the author here.. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anita_Florence_Hemmings&diff=662465447&oldid=662465106 compared to the current 'whitewashed' version. Now the high profile movie will make the more extensive verion more worthy of proper editing, maybe even a reversion?? https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/zendaya-to-star-in-film-about-first-black-graduate-of-vassar-who-passed-as-white_us_5a0b453ce4b0bc648a0e6146 How about them apples!