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Kroeger, Brooke. Passing: When People Can't Be Who They Are.(Brief Article)(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)
Sept. 2003. 240p. PublicAffairs, $25 (1-891620-99-1). 302.
The term passing is most often thought of as racial minorities passing for white to receive the privileges denied them due to race. But Kroeger plumbs the varieties and complexities of passing across racial, sexual, and economic lines. She offers profiles of a black man who passed for a white Jew; a working-class Puerto Rican woman who became an Orthodox Jew and passed for privileged; a gay man at a conservative Jewish seminary passing for straight; a lesbian naval officer who passed for straight; and a respected poet who, on a lark, adopts a different persona and ends up writing ...
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