New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party

Michael Eric Dyson
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New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to the door was denied entrance. The brown bag criterion survives as a metaphor for how the black cultural elite quite literally establishes caste along color lines within black life. ✨ Come Hell or High Water. Book by Michael Eric Dyson, www.today.com. 2006.
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