Briss Broyard's new book received breathless, yet inexplicable, hype. Aside from the seriously odd choices that newspapers and magazines choose to push hard--while ignoring infinitely more important books--the weird obsession over race and implicit endorsement of the hoary "single drop of blood" rule seems worthy of comment.
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I'm not black at all, but I have a lot of records by black musicians. Is that good enough to get a big advance check from someone?
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