“The Black Box: Writing the Race” by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Nearly ten years ago, when his granddaughter was born, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. asked his son-in-law about “the box.” The child, Gates, Jr. says, is “87.5 percent European” and looks white, but her parents checked a box on her birth certificate to indicate that she is “Black.” “Such is the absurdity of the history of […]
