You Can Tell a Tree by its Fruit

Louis Carter Senior, a Black man and skilled shoemaker, returns home from prison with a plan to rebuild his family's shoe business already in motion. But because racism from a competing White business is what got his business shut down and him arrested, he conspires a plan to have his Irish-immigrant cellmate, Luis Carter ii, and his White-passing family front as the face of Carter's Shoe Emporium to fulfill his American dream. Inspired by the book, How The Irish Became White, You Can Tell a Tree by its Fruit speaks to the history of Irish assimilation into White culture and its relationship to Black Americans not being "allowed" to rise out of the bottom caste of 19th-Century America.

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