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 “colored” in the Caribbean Achy Obejas, a queer Jewish Cuban woman who discovers that in Hawaii she is considered white.
Page writes about her mother passing as a white woman without a black ex-husband or biracial children. Skyhorse, a Mexican American, writes about how his mother passed him as an American Indian before he gradually learned and accepted who-and what-he really is.
Some pass to advance themselves or their loved ones to what they perceive is a better quality of life.Įdited by authors Brando Skyhorse and Lisa Page, We Wear the Mask is a groundbreaking anthology featuring fifteen essays-fourteen of them original-that examine passing in multifaceted ways. George Washington University, Washington, D.C.įifteen writers reveal their diverse experiences with passing, including racial, ethnic, sexual orientation, gender, and economic.Īmerican history is filled with innumerable examples of “passing.” Why do people pass? The reasons are manifold: opportunity, access, safety, adventure, agency, fear, trauma, shame. Lisa Page, Acting Director of Creative Writing We Wear the Mask: 15 Stories about Passing in Americaīrando Skyhorse, Associate Professor of English
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