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I have a confession: I am not a fan of the passing trope. From Nella Larsen s 1929 classic,
Passing, to the original
Imitation of Life (the 1934 movie starred the incomparable Fredi Washington as Peola, the little girl who wanted to be white) to Britt Bennett s 2020 novel
The Vanishing Half, the notion of a Black person posing as white to escape her Blackness just felt . tired. Deep down, all Black people want to be white. I heard that in a social psychology class, repeated as if it were a truism. It s not. At several points in childhood and as an adult, I ve loved the notion of being rich, but being white? I cannot imagine it. I wouldn t be me.
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It is the latest book by
New York Times best-selling author Heather Terrell (writing as Marie Benedict) who has written many untold stories of prominent women in history.
Before she started writing full-time Terrell was a lawyer and she has more than 10 years experience at two leading US law firms and for Fortune 500 companies.
Terrell said her parents were supportive but surprised when she told them she wanted to go from being a lawyer to an author.
She described the career change as a leap of faith . Over the years the compulsion to really write, to kind of excavate into the past and dig out these untold histories really became overwhelming and I knew I couldn t proceed on as a lawyer anymore.