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Nov 19, 2021 · Kelly McWilliams writes about being a light-skinned Black woman, the one time she intentionally passed for white and the grief she felt about that decision.
- Kelly Mcwilliams
Bernice Lee (Sonya Wilde) is a young woman of mixed African and European ancestry, living in Chicago with her family, and she is mistaken for a fully white woman by a white man, who tries to hit on her repeatedly. Her brother, more obviously of mixed heritage, fights off the man.
A young, light-skinned African-American woman, tired of discrimination, decides to move away from home and pass for white, as the title says. With lightning speed she gets married to a wealthy white man, but, predictably, gets tied up in knots trying to hide her past.
Nov 20, 2017 · For 17 years I told no one, except my husband, my two children and two close friends that my mother was passing as white. It was the longest and most difficult secret I’d ever held.
Although she embraces her heritage, Bernice, against her black grandmother's advice to live life truthfully, heads to New York to start life anew as white under the assumed name Lila Brownell. She is quickly courted by Rick Leyton of a prominent white New England family.
Nov 12, 2021 · By Cady Lang. November 12, 2021 3:19 PM EST. I n Passing, the film adaptation of Nella Larsen’s seminal 1929 novel of the same name, two women reckon with who they are and how they identify....
At a fast-moving 93 minutes, it's a cautionary tale about the road to unhappiness experienced by a fair-skinned “black” woman who chooses to “pass” (let stand assumptions that she is not black) for white. The film's title, alone, got it noticed.
