Thank you so much, @jayna.
This was indeed my book project. Steemit has helped me give some shape to it. Hopefully, I will be able to publish all this in some form. I posted 7 parts previous to this section (see comment above).

From Charles Chesnutt and his Stories of the Color Line, African Americans have dealt with the issue of passing (blacks who were fair enough to pass as white). There is an African American writer, BarbaraNeely, who, from the perspective of a female detective (Blanche), approaches the nuances of internal racism within american blacks.
The pressure of white-normativity or the benefits associated with whiteness have taken a toll among non-white groups.