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Alvera Frederic
1921–2014
United States
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Biography
Alvera Rita Kalina, (née Frederic, October 21, 1921 – April 5, 2014) was a multiracial American woman from New Orleans who passed as white after moving north to Ohio. She married a white man, keeping her mixed heritage a secret from him and their children. She is the subject of White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing (2017), written by her daughter, Gail Lukasik.
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