Soul Man

A white prospective grad student’s affluent family won’t pay his way through law school, so he takes tanning pills to darken his skin in order to qualify for an African-American scholarship at Harvard. He soon gets more than he bargained for, as he begins to learn what life is really like for blacks in America.

• passing for black
• racial stereotype
• white male pretending to be black
• white man as black man
• white pretending to be black