Family and Legacy of Color Prejudice

Emma Lou's family—her mother, grandmother, and relatives—actively reinforce color prejudice, mourning her darkness and hiding her from guests, showing how intraracial bias is passed down through generations.

The Morgan family's history of color prejudice, embodied by Aloysius McNamara's disdain for dark-skinned Blacks and Jane's regret over Emma Lou's skin color, shows how this bias is passed down through generations.