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Passing. Anatomies and Physiologies of Identity Transformations

As an identity shift that has existed for centuries, passing is a strategy to change one’s perceived identity that cannot be separated from colorism, or the preference for individuals exhibiting European-like bodily features. The results of the psychological study of colorism undertaken by Crutchfield et al. show that this predilection is a “historical trauma response [that] not only incorporates subjugation of oppressed African Americans, but can also incorporate resistance” (826). Passing can send mixed messages where oppression contaminates resistance and vice versa.[...]

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Multicultural Discourses in Turbulent Times.

This collection includes a selection of the papers read during the 7th International Conference on Multicultural Discourses co-organized on 24 and 25 October 2020 by the English Department of the Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania, and the School of Contemporary Chinese Communication Studies, Hangzhou Normal University, China.

International conferences on this topic were initiated in 2002, in China, by professor Shi-xu. In 2016 the Conference moved to the University of Sao Paolo, Brazil, in 2018 it was hosted by Tilburg University in the Netherlands, and th[...]

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