I wonder - is it possible to play a character who is not incredibly racist in this time period? I'm thinking more about my singer/flapper girl; you'd think that the dive bars and gentlemen's clubs of the time would hire African American performers, coupled with the fact the whole purpose of a flapper was to turn social norms on their head, would allow a character that at least doesn't treat people of colour with open hostility? I'm thinking my Alice will view them as objects of curiosity as well as trying her damnedest to treat them 'normally', even though her upbringing makes it difficult.

EDIT: Actually, whilst I'm here - I'm looking the traits list. Are they are hard and fast rule? I put my girl down as 'Foreign' because she has 'strange customs' (see above) that, to a conservative country hick in a farm, would probably build up prejudice.