{"id":54069,"date":"2017-10-17T01:52:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T01:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54069"},"modified":"2017-10-17T01:52:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T01:52:32","slug":"we-wear-the-mask-15-stories-about-passing-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54069","title":{"rendered":"We Wear the Mask: 15 Stories about Passing in America"},"content":{"rendered":"

We Wear the Mask: 15 Stories about Passing in America<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Beacon Press<\/a>
\n2017-10-10
\n224 Pages
\nPaperback ISBN:\u00a0978-080707898-3
\nEbook ISBN 978-080707899-0
\nSize: 5.5 x 8.5 Inches<\/p>\n

Edited by:<\/p>\n

Brando Skyhorse<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of English
\nIndiana University, Bloomington<\/em><\/p>\n

Lisa Page<\/strong><\/a>, Acting Director of Creative Writing
\nGeorge Washington University, Washington, D.C.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Fifteen writers reveal their diverse experiences with passing, including racial<\/a>, ethnic, sexual orientation, gender, and economic.<\/em><\/p>\n

American history is filled with innumerable examples of \u201cpassing.\u201d Why do people pass? The reasons are manifold: opportunity, access, safety, adventure, agency, fear, trauma, shame. Some pass to advance themselves or their loved ones to what they perceive is a better quality of life.<\/p>\n

Edited by authors Brando Skyhorse and Lisa Page, We Wear the Mask<\/em> is a groundbreaking anthology featuring fifteen essays\u2014fourteen of them original\u2014that examine passing in multifaceted ways. Skyhorse, a Mexican American, writes about how his mother passed him as an American Indian before he gradually learned and accepted who\u2014and what\u2014he really is. Page writes about her mother passing as a white <\/a>woman without a black ex-husband or biracial children. The anthology also includes essays by Marc Fitten, whose grandfather, a Chinese Jamaican, wanted to hide his name and ethnicity and for his children to pass as \u201ccolored\u201d in the Caribbean<\/a>; Achy Obejas, a queer Jewish Cuban woman who discovers that in Hawaii she is considered white. There\u2019s M. G. Lord, who passes for heterosexual after her lesbian lover is killed; Patrick Rosal, who, without meaning to, \u201cpasses\u201d as a waiter at the National Book Awards ceremony; and Sergio Troncoso, a Latino man, who passes for white at an internship on Capitol Hill<\/a>. These and other compelling essays reveal the complex reality of passing in America.<\/p>\n

Other contributors include:<\/p>\n