An edition of We wear the mask (2017)

We wear the mask

15 true stories of passing in America

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An edition of We wear the mask (2017)

We wear the mask

15 true stories of passing in America

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"For some, 'passing' means opportunity, access, or safety. Others don't willfully pass but are 'passed' in specific situations by someone else. We Wear the Mask, edited by authors Brando Skyhorse and Lisa Page, is an illuminating and timely anthology of original essays that examines the complex reality of passing in America"--

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Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Pages
204

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Table of Contents

Editors' note
College application essay #2 -- Brando Skyhorse
Secret lives -- Achy Obejas
The inscrutable Alexander Fitten -- Marc Fitten
Letter to the lady who mistook me for the help at the National Book Awards, or some meditations on style -- Patrick Rosal
Passing -- Teresa Wiltz
Which lie did I tell? -- Trey Ellis
Negroland -- Margo Jefferson
Slipping into darkness -- Lisa Page
Among the heterosexuals -- M. G. Lord
On historical passing and erasure -- Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Stepping on a star -- Gabrielle Bellot
Class acts : ways to be something you're not -- Clarence Page
Jewess in wool clothing -- Susan Golomb
Passing ambition -- Sergio Troncoso
Terror and passing -- Rafia Zakaria.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.800973
Library of Congress
E184.A1 W327 2017, E184.A1W3999 2017

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 204 pages
Number of pages
204

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL26932667M
Internet Archive
wewearmask15true0000unse
ISBN 10
0807078980
ISBN 13
9780807078983
LCCN
2016058349
OCLC/WorldCat
966873361

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL19719537W

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