MUDURE Mihaela, NANDA Aparajita
Passing. Anatomies and Physiologies of Identity Transformations

 
 
   
  978-606-37-2300-1
  2024
 
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REZUMAT: 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.