We Wear the Mask
15 True Stories of Passing in America
15 True Stories of Passing in America
Edited by Brando Skyhorse and Lisa Page
Edited by Brando Skyhorse and Lisa Page
Edited by Brando Skyhorse and Lisa Page
Edited by Brando Skyhorse and Lisa Page
Category: Literary Collections
Category: Literary Collections
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Paperback $18.00
Oct 10, 2017 | ISBN 9780807078983
The Modern Jewish Girl’s Guide to Guilt
Passionate Minds
Skin Deep
White Tears/Brown Scars
The Whole Woman
Of Woman Born
The World Split Open
Feminism
Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin
Praise
“In presenting these insightful, provocative life experiences, the editors give inquisitive readers (some of whom may be passing themselves) nutritious food for thought…Sharply drawn reflections on identity fluidity, stereotypes, marginalization, and cultural assumption.”
—Kirkus Reviews
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
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
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