Passing
Subtitle: When People Can't Be Who They Are
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Published: November 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781586482879
Subjects: Social, group or collective psychology; Social Interaction; Social Science; Sociology; USA; Sociology - General; Social Psychology; Personality
First sentence: HE HAS NO RECOLLECTION OF HIS MOTHER, although he knows she was Jewish because this much his father told him; that, and how she took off for Israel while she was pregnant with him, drawn by the 1967 war.
Description: Tells the stories of six present day "passers": a black screenwriter who passed as a white Jew, a white teacher who passed for black, a working-class Puerto Rican desktop publishing expert who passes for someone of more privileged background, a gay Conservative Jewish seminarian and a lesbian naval officer who passed for straight, and a poet who radically shifts his persona to write about rock 'n' roll. These and other stories from history explore passing and its consequences.