Set in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War era, Right of Passage explores the social change and conflict involved in that period. Chris, a young black man, meets Miriam, a white fellow academic. They develop an irresistible mutual attraction complicated by fear and self-doubt, and the resistance of their families. Against a background of racial conflict and scenes of black-white middle-class life, this is a picture of the transforming power of love, and the irony, humor, and pain involved in measuring up to self-professed humane ideals.
It is also a picture of an interracial couple who are academics who love classical music and who play the piano, individually and together--a picture of the appeal and sustaining power of such music shared by the two.
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