{"id":5152,"date":"2004-01-07T22:11:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-07T22:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5152"},"modified":"2021-06-12T03:20:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T03:20:07","slug":"more-on-multiracial-descended-whites-who-embrace-one-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/01\/07\/more-on-multiracial-descended-whites-who-embrace-one-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Multiracial-descended whites who embrace “one drop”"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/www.rjr.ru.ac.za\/section3\/usa_sharing_pain\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Family Secrets, produced by Alice Pifer for ABCs 20\/20, follows Simms on a trail back into her shrouded – and painful – past. Early on Simms, perceptibly a 30-ish white woman, describes the sense of shame she had growing up in her family, because they were hiding something. What they were hiding was their black ancestry, which Simms confirms as she researches the life of her great-grandmother Anita Hemmings, the first African American woman to attend the prestigious Vassar College. Hemmings passed for white there until her roommate outed her; she graduated in spite of the scandal.<\/p>\n

I just was overwhelmed, Simms says. I saw so many of my family in her. I was so proud of her. I just was overcome.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

http:\/\/www.jrn.columbia.edu\/events\/race\/excellence_12.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Lynn Sherr shares the stage of “Family Secret” with Jillian Atkin Sims, who followed the faint trail of her grandmother’s hints to discover that her white family had black ancestors. The subject matter was fertile ground for helping viewers understand a significant slice of race relations, and Sherr, with producer Alice Pifer, made good use of the opportunity.<\/p>\n

To understand the place shame plays in a white family’s discovery of black heritage, viewers needed historical context, and if the story was to achieve a measure of authenticity, it needed Sims’ voice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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