Veiled Aristocrats.

The veiled aristocrats of “Chicago’s intelligent, well-educated and refined mulatto community…” (Kenneth Wiggins Porter)

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A novel of African Americans “passing” for white including an interracial romance; partly set in Chicago. Written by Gertrude Sanborn (1881–1928), the novel attacked racism and suggested remedies for its eradication.

Sanborn’s novel is a work of social fiction by a “white author whose title referred to Chicago’s intelligent, well-educated, and refined mulatto community, ‘aristocrats’ because they were descended from the white aristocrats of the Old South and Europe but ‘veiled’ from due recognition by their color.” (DANB)

Later, in 1932, filmmaker and director Oscar Micheaux’s Veiled Aristocrats was released. Micheaux’s film was more a re-make of the 1924 silent House Behind the Cedars, a film based on Charles Chesnutt’s 1900 same-titled novel and also on the theme of “passing.”

An early Associated Publishers title, the first novel—and one of only a few—published by this Black-owned firm founded by Carter G. Woodson.

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