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Pink Toes was described as a satirical novel that portrayed Molly Moon in a damaging light and used a colloquial term for interracial sex.
There's a novel called Pink Toes. Tell us a little bit about it.
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Pink Toes was described as a satirical novel that portrayed Molly Moon in a damaging light and used a colloquial term for interracial sex.
There's a novel called Pink Toes. Tell us a little bit about it.
Pink Toes was actually written by Chester Himes, who I must say was Henry's first cousin, and it was a damning portrait of Molly Moon that damaged her reputation at a time when the movement was shifting.
He said every note that I took while living in your house, I'm going to use it to write this satire about fundraising and white philanthropy and Black complicity... and I'm going to call it Pink Toes, which was a colloquial term used to describe interracial sex.