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Passing (racial identity) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Many light-skinned African-Americans over the years have sought to escape racial prejudice and injustice by "passing" as white, many times assuming a new identity altogether. ... Journalist and author Brooke Kroeger's book Passing: When People Can't Be Who They Are, documents many such stories -- including the life of...
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Passing for white is where you get people to assume you are white even though you are not pure white. Millions of blacks in America have done it down through time so that now a tenth of all white Americans are at least one-tenth black.
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Passing for White ... Through the prism of one family's experience, this book explores questions of racial identity, religious tolerance, and black-white "passing" in America. Spanning the century from 1820 to 1920, it tells the story of Michael Morris Healy, a white Irish immigrant planter in Georgia;
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Passing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Passing may refer to: •Passing (sociology), presenting oneself as a member of another sociological group •Passing (gender), presenting oneself as a member of the opposite gender •Passing (racial iden...
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If light enough to "pass" as White, she did, but passing led to deeper self-loathing. She pitied or despised Blacks and the "blackness" in herself; she hated or feared Whites yet desperately sought their approval.
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Broyard was born black and became white, and his story is compounded of equal parts pragmatism and principle. He knew that the world was filled with such snippets and scraps of paper, all conspiring to reduce him to an identity that other people had invented and he had no say in.
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