Racial Heritage In New Orleans

Ormonde at Through the Dust writes about the gumbo mixture of racial heritage in New Orleans and south Louisiana and links to a story about Bliss Broyard, the daughter of writer Anatole Broyard, a critic and essayist for the New York Times, who was of mixed white and African-American heritage. He moved north to attend college and became a passablanc, a person of mixed heritage who "passed" for white. Only on her father's deathbed did Bliss learn of her mixed heritage.