ENGL 102W Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nella Larsen, Close Reading
30 Jan 2018
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If you don"t see it visually with your eyes then you have a harder time grasping and believing in the concept. The act of believing shapes what we see. Passing: the movement of a person who is legally or socially designated black into a white racial category of white social identity - davis viii. The concept of passing was important in the 20s because this is a concept of segregation. In order to access education, seek various jobs, housing and survival , those who are able to pass are those who are white or those who are passing as white. White privilege - those who are white and see others who are passing as white become frustrated, angered and anxious. Skin colour, hair type, eye shape, etc. This novel focuses on the concept of passing via the relation between irene and clare, both women who were born into african-american families.
