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Passing

A historically and culturally significant part of the history of Black American experience, passing was the tactical measure used by some Blacks to evade US segregation. Mixed race African Americans with little to no visible African ancestry were able to pass as White in the US to gain economic and social status and to escape oppression and degradation that were inherent during the construction of race, Jim Crow discrimination and segregation in the US.

It's the old, old story

We see it at the movies, hear it in songs, and read it in many books: retellings of stories that have been told since before writing.