{"id":62189,"date":"2021-11-11T21:43:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T21:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62189"},"modified":"2021-11-11T21:43:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T21:43:58","slug":"passing-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62189","title":{"rendered":"Passing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Passing<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Signet Classics<\/a> (an imprint of Penguin Random House<\/a>)
\n2021-07-06 (Originally published in 1929)
\n176 Pages
\n4-3\/16 x 6-3\/4
\nPaperback ISBN: 9780593437841
\nEbook ISBN: 9780593439074<\/p>\n

Nella Larsen (1891\u20131964)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Introduction by Brit Bennett<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Nella Larsen\u2019s fascinating exploration of race and identity\u2014the inspiration for the Netflix film<\/a> directed by Rebecca Hall<\/a>, starring Tessa Thompson<\/a> and Ruth Negga<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This Signet Classics edition of Passing<\/em> includes an Introduction by Brit Bennett, the bestselling author of The Vanishing Half<\/em><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Irene Redfield is a Black woman living an affluent, comfortable life with her husband and children in the thriving neighborhood of Harlem<\/a> in the 1920s. When she reconnects with her childhood friend Clare Kendry, who is similarly light-skinned, Irene discovers that Clare has been passing for a white woman<\/a> after severing ties to her past\u2014even hiding the truth from her racist husband.<\/p>\n

Clare finds herself drawn to Irene\u2019s sense of ease and security with her Black identity and longs for the community (and, increasingly, the woman) she lost. Irene is both riveted and repulsed by Clare and her dangerous secret, as Clare begins to insert herself\u2014and her deception\u2014into every part of Irene\u2019s stable existence. First published in 1929, Larsen\u2019s brilliant examination of the various ways in which we all seek to \u201cpass,\u201d is as timely as ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Passing Signet Classics (an imprint of Penguin Random House) 2021-07-06 (Originally published in 1929) 176 Pages 4-3\/16 x 6-3\/4 Paperback ISBN: 9780593437841 Ebook ISBN: 9780593439074 Nella Larsen (1891\u20131964) Introduction by Brit Bennett Nella Larsen\u2019s fascinating exploration of race and identity\u2014the inspiration for the Netflix film directed by Rebecca Hall, starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,15,6462,20,25],"tags":[30881,1631,87,596,25857,32346,32347],"class_list":["post-62189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-passing-2","category-usa","category-women","tag-brit-bennett","tag-harlem","tag-nella-larsen","tag-new-york-city","tag-penguin-random-house","tag-signet","tag-signet-classics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62190,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62189\/revisions\/62190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}