COLOR LESSON, 2021

Facts from Caste by Isabel Wilkerson 
copyright 2020; published by Random House
 
In 1911, Arkansas defined Negro as anyone ‘who has… any negro blood whatever.’ In 1924, Virginia passed a law defining a white person as ‘one who has no trace whatsoever of any blood other than Caucasian.’ Alabama defined a black person as anyone with ‘a drop of negro blood,’ and, as
recently as 1983, Louisiana had a law on the books setting the boundary at ‘one-thirty-second Negro blood.’
 

In the gallery, Color Lesson is 8" in height and 80" wide, on card stock and canvas.
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COLOR LESSON
By Becky Hendrick

A Mississippi native, now residing
in the Sonora Desert, Hendrick has
always checked the “Caucasian” box.
Her art and writing can be found at::
www.beckyhendrick.com
beckyhendrickwriting.com
beckhenrickfreeideas.com

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