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Stories about him indicate that he was an earthly hero, a light-skinned man, who acted as the ruler of the Toltecs for some time.
In popular culture, literature, and the cinema, soldaderas have been portrayed as self-sacrificing women, usually mestizas (mixed-race women) from the lower classes, but La Adelita is often seen as a güera (light-skinned), “sweetheart of the troops, a woman who is valiant, pretty, and a wonderful helpmate to the soldier” (Salas 121).
Descended from light-skinned slaves who enjoyed a privileged position in the plantation hierarchy, the "black elite" continues to hoard access to its boarding schools, social events, and churches: "Why," asks one pedigreed lady, "would I be socializing with some caseworker or mailman who goes to NAACP events?"
Aside from that, he looked pretty average--average height, hair color, skin color (police said he was either a white guy or a light-skinned black guy).
While staying in Cape Town with a family of Dutch colonists, Dixon is set upon by its three young daughters, whose mission is to arouse him to the point where he'll want to mate with their black slave, thereby producing a light-skinned offspring.