In DUST TRACKS, Zora Neal Hurston distinguished between skinfolks and kinfolks... She stated that you could not point out _her people_ by skin color...
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                 Following are the images included on this page: photographs from magazine articles that encouraged readers to guess "Which is Negro?
                 Which is White?", tragic mulatta characters from films, actors who played those roles, and people who passed in real life.

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