Their mother's decided to marry a white man, in hopes of having a higher social status. Larsen wanted to learn more about her background so she continued to go to school during the Harlem Renaissance.
Basically she wanted to get more information about her ethnic background
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Himself is an intensive pronoun. Intensive and reflexive pronouns end use the object form of the pronoun and end in -self. Intensive pronouns are found immediately after the antecedent. In this case, after "man" because "himself" is intensifying "man".