Tag: Charles D. Martin

  • As David Matthews demonstrates in his new memoir, “Ace of Spades,” however, passing continues. Like Angelina Dove, Matthews passed for white for the first 20 years of his life – throughout the 1970s, ’80s and into the ’90s – as a means of living more happily in an America still in thrall to the oppressive…

  • The White African American Body Rutgers University Press March 2002 240 pages 30 b&w illus. Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-3032-1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-3031-4 Charles D. Martin Explores the image of the white Negro in American popular culture from the late eighteenth century to the present. Blacks with white skin. Since colonial times, showmen have exhibited the bodies…