Passing in America

"Passing" is when a person is regarded as a member of an identity group or category different from their own.

Lisa Page director of the creative writing program at George Washington University and Brando Skyhorse, associate professor of English at Indiana University in Bloomington, co-editors of and contributors We Wear the Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America along with contributor Trey Ellis, a writer and associate professor at Columbia University, share some of their stories about the how’s and why’s of “passing” across lines of race, ethnicity, gender, and class.