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Passing
By : Nella Larsen
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Alternate Cover Editions can be found here and here. Clare Kendry is living on the edge. Light-skinned, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a racist white man unaware of her African American heritage, and has severed all ties to her past after deciding to ?pass? as a white woman. Clare?s childhood friend, Irene Redfield, just as light-skinned, has chosen to remain within the African American community, and is simultaneously allured and repelled by Clare?s risky decision to engage in racial masquerade for personal and societal gain. After frequenting African American-centric gatherings together in Harlem, Clare?s interest in Irene turns into a homoerotic longing for Irene?s black identity that she abandoned and can never embrace again, and she is forced to grapple with her decision to pass for white in a way that is both tragic and telling. This edition features a new introduction by Emily Bernard and notes by Thadious M. Davis.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the
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Author : Nella Larsen
Pages : 160 pages
Publisher : Penguin
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : 0142437271
ISBN-13 : 9780142437278
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