Resources on Black-White
Racial Passing
Books on Passing
Fiction
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An Imperative Duty by William Dean Howells (1891)
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Désirée’s Baby by Kate Chopin (1893)
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Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain (1894)
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The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color-Line by Charles W. Chesnutt (1899)
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The House Behind the Cedars by Charles W. Chesnutt (1900)
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson (1912)
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Flight by Walter White (1926)
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Show Boat by Edna Ferber (1926)
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Plum Bun by Jessie Redmon Fauset (1928)
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Quicksand by Nella Larsen (1928)
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Passing by Nella Larsen (1929)
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Black No More by George S. Schuyler (1931)
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Light in August by William Faulkner (1932)
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The Ways of White Folk by Langston Hughes (1934)
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Caucasia by Danzy Senna (1998)
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The Human Stain by Philip Roth (2000)
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Passing by Nella Larsen, Carla Kaplan (Editor) Norton Critical Edition (2007)
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Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi (2014)
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The Gilded Years by Karin Tanabe (2016) - Anita Hemmings Hist. Fic.
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We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin (2019)
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The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (2020)
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The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray (June 2021)
Nonfiction
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Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by Ellen and William Craft (1860)
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Who is Black? By James F. Davis (1991)
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Passing and the Fictions of Identity, edited by Elaine K. Ginsberg (1996)
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Neither Black Nor White Yet Both by Werner Sollors (1997)
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Shades of Citizenship by Melissa Nobles (2000)
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Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture by Gayle Wald (2000)
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Black Puritan, Black Republican: the life and thoughts of Lemuel Haynes, 1753-1833 by John Saillant (2002)
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Passing for White: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820-1920 by James O’Toole (2002)
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Race Passing and American Individualism by Kathleen Pfeiffer (2003)
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The Mulatta and the Politics of Race by Teresa C. Zakodnik (2004)
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One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life - A Story of Race and Family Secrets by Bliss Broyard (2007)
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What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and The Making if Race In America by Peggy Pascoe (2009)
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Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness by Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor (2009)
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What Is "your" Race?: The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans by Kenneth Prewitt (2013)
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Light, Bright and Damn Near White: Black Leaders Created by the One-Drop Rule by Michelle Gordon Jackson (2014)
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A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in America by Allyson Hobbs (2014)
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Neo-Passing: Performing Identity after Jim Crow edited by Millie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young (2018)
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Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement by Jessie Morgan-Owens (2019)
Other Books
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History of Racism in the U.S.
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Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
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Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
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Immigration & Legality
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Impossible Subjects by Mae M. Ngai
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Imaginary Lines by Patrick Ettinger
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Chinese Exclusion
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At America's Gates by Erika Lee
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Race, Wealth, and Power
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The Address Book by Deidre Mask
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Films
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Veiled Aristocrats, 1932
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Imitation of Life, 1934 & 1959
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Lost Boundaries, 1949
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Pinky, 1949
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Show Boat (1951)
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The Human Stain (2003)
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Passing (2021) based on Nella Larsen’s novel