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Feb 11, 2021 · Passing is a deliberate, usually secret act, a conscious shifting of identity in order to seamlessly assimilate with another group. Historically, it was used as a tactic for slave descendants...
- Natalie Morris
Oct 20, 2021 · Rebecca Hall’s new film adaptation of the 1929 novel “Passing” has cracked open a public conversation about colorism and privilege.
Nov 18, 2021 · The American movie industry has a long, problematic history with stories about racial passing. But the actor-writer-director Rebecca Hall is trying to tell a new kind of story. Netflix. November...
Nov 4, 2021 · What Passing Can Still Teach Us About Identity. A film adaptation of Nella Larsen’s novel dramatizes the mercurial and sometimes dangerous consequences of a person’s performance of self in...
Dec 30, 2014 · The controversy that regularly surfaced for centuries surrounding light-skinned African Americans who resort to “passing,” that is to say, willfully concealing their African lineage to gain social and economic advantage by reinventing themselves, usually as Caucasian but also as Latino, Native American, and Asian, has become a relic of our natio...
Nov 4, 2019 · In African American literature, one of many prominent examples of “passing” comes from James Weldon Johnson’s apocryphal Diary of an Ex-Colored Man. Johnson’s protagonist ultimately reflected back on his life as a black man passing for white and wretchedly concluded that he had “sold his birthright for a mess of pottage.”
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May 3, 2023 · Fictional stories of passing are filled with wrenching denials and disavowals of loved ones, dramatic outings, and tragic endings. The real-life experiences of those who passed were probably no less dramatic and certainly filled with pain and fear.
