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Why do people pass? Fifteen writers reveal their experiences with passing.For some, "passing" means opportunity, access, or safety. Others don't willingly pass but are "passed" in specific situations by someone else. We Wear the Mask, edited by Brando Skyhorse and Lisa Page, is an illuminating and timely anthology that examines the complex reality of passing in America.Skyhorse, a Mexican American, writes about how his mother passed him as an American Indian before he learned who he really is. Page shares how her white mother didn't tell friends about her black ex-husband or that her children were, in fact, biracial.The anthology includes writing from Gabrielle Bellot, who shares the disquieting truths of passing as a woman after coming out as trans, and MG Lord, who, after the murder of her female lover, embraced heterosexuality. Patrick Rosal writes of how he "accidentally" passes as a waiter at the National Book Awards ceremony, and Rafia Zakaria agonizes over her Muslim American identity while traveling through domestic and international airports. Other writers include Trey Ellis, Marc Fitten, Susan Golomb, Margo Jefferson, Achy Obejas, Clarence Page, Sergio Troncoso, Dolen Perkins-Valdez, and Teresa Wiltz.
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Self (Philosophy) --- Passing (Identity) --- Identity (Psychology)
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Passing (Identity) --- Passing (Identity) --- Multiracial people --- Rhetoric --- Rhetoric --- Race identity --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- United States --- Race relations.
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"An astonishingly detailed rendering of the variety and complexity of racial experience in an evolving national culture." -The New York Times Book ReviewIn the Obama era, as Americans confront the enduring significance of race and heritage, this multigenerational account of family secrets promises to spark debate across the country. Daniel J. Sharfstein's sweeping history moves from eighteenth-century South Carolina to twentieth-century Washington, D.C., unraveling the stories of three families who represent the complexity of race in America. Identifying first as people of color and later as whites, the families provide a lens through which to examine how people thought about and experienced race and how, for them and America, the very meanings of black and white changed. The Invisible Line cuts through centuries of myth to transform the way we see ourselves.
Racially Mixed People --- Miscegenation --- Passing (Identity) --- Race --- Race Awareness --- United States --- Social Science
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"Leerom Medovoi's The Inner Life of Race engages questions of race, power, and embodiment to analyze how systems of color-line racism are different and similar to other forms of racism, such as Islamophobia or anti-semitism. Working through a Foucauldian frame, Medovoi offers a genealogy of governmentally and security, outlining a parallel between hierarchies of racial embodiment and of what he calls "ensoulment," a system he traces back to fifteenth-century Catholic Spain and the church's attempts to sort out true believers from those who might be passing and thus threats to the whole. He argues that the Church's active concern for true believers directly prefigures the racial-security biopolitics which emerges a few centuries later. This attention to religious concerns enables Medovoi to trace the mutations of religious control to political control and religious fanaticism into political fanaticism, and to analyze how contemporary antisemitism and Islamophobia-as well as homophobia and transphobia-draw on centuries-old anxieties about the particular threats posed by the soul who "passes" as Christian or as a white body"--
Critical theory. --- Other (Philosophy) --- Passing (Identity) --- Racism --- Religion and politics. --- Religious aspects. --- History.
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Ship captains --- African American sailors --- African Americans --- Enslaved persons --- Passing (Identity) --- Healy, Michael A., --- United States. --- Officers --- Alaska --- Gold discoveries. --- History
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Read Martha A. Sandweiss's posts on the Penguin Blog The secret double life of the man who mapped the American West, and the woman he loved Clarence King was a late nineteenth-century celebrity, a brilliant scientist and explorer once described by Secretary of State John Hay as "the best and brightest of his generation." But King hid a secret from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent family in Newport- for thirteen years he lived a double life-the first as the prominent white geologist and writer Clarence King, and a second as the black Pullman porter and steelworker named James Todd. The fair, blue-eyed son of a wealthy China trader passed across the color line, revealing his secret to his black common-law wife, Ada Copeland, only on his deathbed. In Passing Strange, noted historian Martha A. Sandweiss tells the dramatic, distinctively American tale of a family built along the fault lines of celebrity, class, and race- a story that spans the long century from Civil War to civil rights.
King, Clarence, 1842-1901 --- African Americans --- Passing (Identity) --- Married People --- Deception --- African American Women --- United States --- New York (N.Y.) --- Biography & Autobiography --- Social Science --- Family & Relationships --- Psychology
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"In 1948, journalist Ray Sprigle traded his whiteness to live as a black man for four weeks. A little over a decade later, John Howard Griffin famously 'became' black as well, traveling the American South in search of a certain kind of racial understanding. Contemporary history is littered with the surprisingly complex stories of white people passing as black, and here Alisha Gaines constructs a unique genealogy of 'empathetic racial impersonation' - white liberals walking in the fantasy of black skin under the alibi of cross-racial empathy. At the end of their experiments in 'blackness,' Gaines argues that these debatably well-meaning white impersonators arrived at little more than false consciousness"--
African Americans --- Empathy --- Impersonation. --- Passing (Identity) --- Identity (Psychology) --- Acting --- Comedy --- Imitation --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Caring --- Emotions --- Social psychology --- Sympathy --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Social conditions --- Political aspects. --- History --- United States --- Race relations --- Empathie --- Imitation sociale. --- Noirs américains --- Passing (Identity). --- Race relations. --- Race. --- Relations interethniques --- Social conditions. --- Aspect politique. --- Conditions sociales --- Histoire --- 1900-1999. --- USA. --- United States. --- Imitation sociale --- Impersonation --- Black people --- Noirs américains
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Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap into another. This revelatory history of passing explores the possibilities and challenges that racial indeterminacy presented to men and women living in a country obsessed with racial distinctions. It also tells a tale of loss. As racial relations in America have evolved so has the significance of passing. To pass as white in the antebellum South was to escape the shackles of slavery. After emancipation, many African Americans came to regard passing as a form of betrayal, a selling of one's birthright. When the initially hopeful period of Reconstruction proved short-lived, passing became an opportunity to defy Jim Crow and strike out on one's own. Although black Americans who adopted white identities reaped benefits of expanded opportunity and mobility, Hobbs helps us to recognize and understand the grief, loneliness, and isolation that accompanied-and often outweighed-these rewards. By the dawning of the civil rights era, more and more racially mixed Americans felt the loss of kin and community was too much to bear, that it was time to "pass out" and embrace a black identity. Although recent decades have witnessed an increasingly multiracial society and a growing acceptance of hybridity, the problem of race and identity remains at the center of public debate and emotionally fraught personal decisions.
African Americans --- Passing (Identity) --- Racially mixed people --- Exiles --- Persons --- Aliens --- Deportees --- Refugees --- Bi-racial people --- Biracial people --- Interracial people --- Mixed race people --- Mixed-racial people --- Mulattoes --- Multiracial people --- Peoples of mixed descent --- Ethnic groups --- Miscegenation --- Identity (Psychology) --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Race identity --- History. --- United States --- Race relations --- Black people
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In 1803 in the colonial South American city of La Plata, Doña Martina Vilvado y Balverde presented herself to church and crown officials to denounce her husband of more than four years, Don Antonio Yta, as a “woman in disguise.” Forced to submit to a medical inspection that revealed a woman’s body, Don Antonio confessed to having been María Yta, but continued to assert his maleness and claimed to have a functional “member” that appeared, he said, when necessary.Passing to América is at once a historical biography and an in-depth examination of the sex/gender complex in an era before “gender” had been divorced from “sex.” The book presents readers with the original court docket, including Don Antonio’s extended confession, in which he tells his life story, and the equally extraordinary biographical sketch offered by Felipa Ybañez of her “son María,” both in English translation and the original Spanish. Thomas A. Abercrombie’s analysis not only grapples with how to understand the sex/gender system within the Spanish Atlantic empire at the turn of the nineteenth century but also explores what Antonio/María and contemporaries can teach us about the complexities of the relationship between sex and gender today.Passing to América brings to light a previously obscure case of gender transgression and puts Don Antonio’s life into its social and historical context in order to explore the meaning of “trans” identity in Spain and its American colonies. This accessible and intriguing study provides new insight into historical and contemporary gender construction that will interest students and scholars of gender studies and colonial Spanish literature and history.This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of New York University. Learn more at the TOME website: openmonographs.org.
Gender-nonconforming people --- Gender nonconformity --- Gender variance (Gender nonconformity) --- Genderqueer --- Non-binary gender --- TGNC (Transgender and gender nonconformity) --- Transgenderism --- Gender expression --- Gender identity --- Gender-creative people --- Gender-independent people --- Gender-non-normative people --- Gender-variant people --- Genderqueer people --- Non-binary people --- Persons --- History --- Yta, Antonio, --- Yta, María Leocadia, --- Passing (Gender) --- Gender-nonconforming people.
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