The tragic end of the only child of the most celebrated interracial marriage of the Harlem Renaissance
2 years ago
Philippa Duke Schuyler was born to Josephine Cogdell, a White writer, and George Schuyler, a well-known African-American journalist. Her mom, being from a family that engaged in farming, applied to her daughter the agricultural theory that crossing different genetic strains produced superior offspring known as “hybrid vigor”, according to this report. As a matter of...