Veiled Aristocrats

Micheaux, 1932: a light-skinned lawyer tries to keep his sister from marrying dark, and the family secret is passing. From Charles W. Chesnutt's The House Behind the Cedars, more or less. Sound, low budget, a living room as a courtroom. Veiled Aristocrats is the title Micheaux gives to people who have decided that color is a costume. It is a race film about the race inside the race, and Micheaux does not flatter anyone.