Passing (racial identity) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the racial politics of the United States, racial passing refers to a person classified by society as a member of one racial group (usually mixed-race African American) choosing to identify with a...
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Racial Passing; RANDALL KENNEDY*; I. PASSING: A DEFINITION; Passing is a deception that enables a person to adopt certain roles or identities from which he would be barred by prevailing social standards in the absence of his misleading conduct.
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I’d like to bring up the question of under what conditions passing is morally blameworthy. ... However, we could imagine that, as Ahmed alludes to, getting caught passing could cause the “rules” governing racial identity, rules which passing attempts to cross, to become even more rigid. ... Racial Passing Group 2...
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In keeping with this theme, my secondary readings in this minor field include not only literary and film studies on passing and blackface, as well as aspects of racial theory, but also critical writing on the idea of race- ... Racial Passing and Masquerade in American Culture ; from the Mid-Nineteenth Century;
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America is more diverse than ever and racial pride is strong, yet a new movie and book are highlighting a phenomenon that seems like a relic of the segregationist past -- black people passing as white.
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"Passing" is shorthand for "racial passing," and "racial passing" means people of one race (generally African-American) passing for another (usually white).
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Considering the maneuverings and risks that racial passing required, it is understandable that many did not think it was worth the trouble. Nevertheless, "passing" proved a useful tool to many persons of mixed race whose appearances were "white" or ambiguous enough to get away with it.
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One of the early roots of the film "Secret Daughter" was FRONTLINE's research into the growing debate over racial classification and the social phenomenon commonly known as "passing." Mario deValdes y Cocom, an historian of the African diaspora, researched some of history's more interesting examples of mixed...
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Crossing the Line offers a superbly well-developed analysis of narratives of racial passing and a strategy for engaging such narratives. It will set the standard for subsequent treatments of racial passing."--Dana Nelson, author of National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men ;
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"Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet" ... While everyone is "passing," some forms of racial passing are condoned and practiced since they do not threaten the integrity of a national sense of self which is defined as white.
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