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== Theater ==
* Inverted by [[Patrick Stewart]], who played [[Othello]] as a white man
* The whole storyline of the musical "Memphis" revolves around a white man falling in love with a black singer. Being set in a period racial segregation, this is played for [[Tear Jerker|drama]].
* ''[[Show Boat]]''. White man is married to a mixed race woman who is considered black by the "one drop rule," so white man pricks woman with a pin and swallows a drop of her blood, making him black too [[Exact Words|by that standard]].
* Half of the song "Black Boys/White Boys" from ''[[Hair (theatre)]]'' is about black girls lusting after white boys. The other half is white girls lusting after black boys.
* The Dion Boucicault play ''The Octoroon'' explores the challenges an interracial couple encounter in the pre-civil war American south.
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