passing as white - 2025 ACF Fall

Question

Description acceptable. In a short story titled for this practice, Jack writes letters to his mother explaining his use of it. For 10 points each:

[10h] Identify this practice which Irene Redfield resents Clare Kendry for being able to perform in a 1920 Nella Larsen novel named for it. An “autobiography” by James Weldon Johnson depicts an anonymous ragtime player undertaking this practice.

ANSWER: passing as white [accept descriptions of being seen as white; or hiding one’s race; accept becoming an Ex-Colored man] (James Weldon Johnson wrote “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.”)

[10m] Jack appears in this author’s short story “Passing” from his collection “The Ways Of White Folk.” In one poem, this author questions if a phenomenon “[stinks] like rotten meat” and asks “ Or does it explode?”

ANSWER: Langston Hughes [or James Mercer Langston Hughes]

[10e] Hughes asks about a “dream deferred” in a poem titled for this African-American neighbourhood of New York City. Both Larsen and Hughes were prominent figures in this neighborhood's namesake 1920s “Renaissance.”

ANSWER: Harlem [accept Harlem Renaissance]

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Southern California	Main	Y	7	17.14	100%	71%	0%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	18.89	100%	56%	33%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	12	19.17	100%	58%	33%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	6	18.33	100%	67%	17%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	12	15.83	100%	42%	17%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	18.89	100%	78%	11%
Northeast	Main	Y	12	21.67	100%	83%	33%
Pacific	Main	Y	9	16.67	100%	44%	22%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	20.83	100%	92%	17%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
UK (South)	UK	Y	8	11.25	100%	13%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%

Data


Claremont B	UCSD A	0	10	10	20
Claremont A	UC Santa Barbara	0	0	10	10
UCLA F	UCLA A	0	0	10	10
UCLA D	UCLA C	0	10	10	20
UCLA E	Claremont C	0	10	10	20
UCSD B	UCLA B	0	10	10	20
USC A	UC Irvine	0	10	10	20
Waterloo B	Guelph A	0	0	10	10
Toronto C	McMaster A	10	10	10	30
Toronto D	Toronto A	0	10	10	20
Toronto B	Waterloo A	10	10	10	30
Toronto E	Waterloo C	0	10	10	20
Toronto F	Brock A	0	0	10	10
McMaster B	Toronto G	0	10	10	20
McMaster C	Toronto H	0	0	10	10
Queen's A	Toronto I	10	0	10	20
CWRU A	Michigan B	0	0	10	10
Michigan State A	CWRU B	0	10	10	20
Louisville A	Michigan A	0	10	10	20
Ohio State B	Louisville B	10	10	10	30
CWRU C	Louisville D	0	10	10	20
Michigan C	Ohio State A	10	10	10	30
Kentucky	Michigan D	0	10	10	20
CWRU D	Michigan State B	0	0	10	10
Ohio State D	Michigan State D	0	0	10	10
Pittsburgh	Ohio State C	10	10	10	30
WVU A	Louisville C	10	0	10	20
WVU B	Michigan State C	0	0	10	10
JMU A	Duke A	0	10	10	20
Liberty B	Liberty C	0	0	10	10
JMU B	Tusculum A	0	0	10	10
VCU A	UNC D	10	10	10	30
Virginia Tech C	UNC B	0	10	10	20
William & Mary B	Liberty A	0	10	10	20
Columbia A	Rutgers B	0	0	10	10
Maryland A	George Mason A	10	10	10	30
Vassar A	George Mason B	0	0	10	10
George Mason C	NYU C	0	0	10	10
Penn	Johns Hopkins	0	0	10	10
Princeton	Lehigh B	0	0	10	10
Maryland C	Maryland B	0	0	10	10
NYU B	Lehigh A	0	10	10	20
NYU A	Rutgers A	0	10	10	20
Rowan	Rutgers C	0	10	10	20
Stony Brook	Rutgers D	0	10	10	20
Vassar B	Columbia B	10	0	10	20
William Woods University A	Chicago B	0	0	10	10
Illinois Blue	WashU Grizzlers	10	10	10	30
Illinois Urbana	Illinois Canada	0	10	10	20
Illinois Champaign	Iowa A	0	10	10	20
Illinois Orange	Rose-Hulman A	0	10	10	20
Chicago A	Indiana A	0	0	10	10
Indiana B	Iowa B	0	10	10	20
Purdue A	Purdue B	0	10	10	20
WashU Grolars	Purdue C	0	10	10	20
Amherst A	Williams A	10	10	10	30
British Columbia A	Washington Sockeye	0	0	10	10
Washington State	British Columbia B	0	0	10	10
Texas	Arizona State A	0	0	10	10
Washington Atlantic	Washington Masu	10	10	10	30
Alberta B	Washington Chinook	0	0	10	10
Washington Steelhead	Washington Chum	0	10	10	20
Washington Coho	Boise State	0	0	10	10
Boston University A	Tufts B	10	10	10	30
Brown B	Brandeis Mozart	0	10	10	20
Dartmouth A	Tufts A	0	10	10	20
MIT A	Dartmouth B	0	10	10	20
Dartmouth C	MIT B	0	10	10	20
Amherst B	Southern Connecticut State University A	0	0	10	10
Boston College B	Tufts C	0	10	10	20
Vermont A	Brandeis Bach	0	10	10	20
Vermont B	Brown A	0	10	10	20
Williams C	Brandeis Beethoven	10	0	10	20
Alberta A	Washington Pink	10	10	10	30
Arizona State B	British Columbia C	0	10	10	20
Auburn A	Georgia Tech F	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Emory A	0	10	10	20
Auburn B	Georgia A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Vanderbilt A	10	10	10	30
Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Clemson C	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech E	Tennessee Tech	0	10	10	20
Mississippi State A	Auburn C	0	10	10	20
Clemson B	Sewanne	0	10	10	20
South Carolina A	Chipola College	0	10	10	20
Tennessee A	Clemson A	0	10	10	20
Vanderbilt B	Vanderbilt C	0	0	10	10
Oxford	Bristol	0	0	10	10
Cambridge A	Cambridge B	0	10	10	20
Birmingham	Cambridge D	0	0	10	10
Imperial B	Imperial A	0	0	10	10
Imperial D	Imperial C	0	0	10	10
Cambridge E	LSE	0	0	10	10
Cardiff	Southampton	0	0	10	10
Cambridge C	Warwick	0	0	10	10
Durham C	Durham A	0	0	10	10
Edinburgh C	Edinburgh B	0	0	10	10
Edinburgh A	Edinburgh D	0	0	10	10
Sheffield A	Sheffield B	0	0	10	10
York	Durham B	0	0	10	10
RIT A	Binghamton A	0	10	10	20
Cornell D	Binghamton B	10	10	10	30
Binghamton C	ESF	0	0	10	10
Cornell C	Cornell B	0	10	10	20
RIT B	Cornell A	0	0	10	10
Williams B	Boston College A	10	10	10	30