Passing Identities

Published: June 28, 2022, 4:40 p.m.

b'The term \\u201cpassing\\u201d was first used in 19th-century America to refer to light-skinned slaves who fled to freedom by claiming a white identity, but the phenomenon both pre- and postdates its naming. Lipika Pelham, joined Sean to explain how she looks at this history in her new book \\u201cPassing: An Alternative History of Identity.\\u201d'