Red Hat On The Boardwalk

<I>Red Hat on the Boardwalk</I> follows the history of one African-American family's plight as they explore the taboo of racism within the Black race from the turn of the twentieth century through the beginning of the 1970s.</p><p>Born with fair skin to African-American parents in Philadelphia Mary Baxter wants to cross the segregation line and be a part of the white world. She becomes a nurse and falls in love with a Jewish doctor named Adam. Hiding her true ethnicity from him they marry and have two children with the same fair skin as Mary. </p><p>When their daughter Geraldine becomes ill Mary is terrified of her secret being exposed. But Mary's actions have far-reaching implications for her family stretching through three generations and seven decades. Author T. N. Talley pens a remarkably realistic portrait of a family battling racism from both ends of the spectrum-white and black. </p>