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Because it's a secretive process, the number of white families with black ancestors who passed is hard to estimate, though historians suspect the number is sizable. Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, author of Sweeter the Juice, a book about relatives who passed as white, says she has received 40,000 letters from people affected by passing. "We have to rethink what these racial boxes mean," she says. While blacks have long acknowledged dual bloodlines, more whites are now embracing such revelations. In January, Jillian Simms, 29, will publish a history of her great-grandmother, who was Vassar's first black graduate...
Shirlee T. Haizlip outlined her book The Sweeter the Juice,which describes her lifelong endeavor to reunite the Black and white sides of her family...
That family split up after her grandmother's death in 1916. Haizlip's mother, then a young adult, remained Washington D.C. while the rest of her immediate relatives left...
...When Haizlip saw her aunt, she was elated to see that she looked like her mother. "And when she smiled, all of the badfeelings I'd had drained out at me. She was just alittle old lady who looked like my mother," shesaid...
...When Haizlip's mother finally saw her sister,the meeting was less emotional than might beexpected, she said. Then she posed the questionshe'd been waiting 76 years to ask: why had shebeen left behind in Washington...