passing as white - Florida

Question

Description acceptable. A woman describes this action by stating, “We shy away from it with an odd kind of revulsion, but we protect it,” in a conversation with her husband Brian. For 10 points each:

[10h] Identify this action that titles a novel that ends with Clare Kendry falling to her death after being exposed for performing this action.

ANSWER: passing as white [accept Passing; accept equivalents that describe hiding being black or pretending to be white]

[10m] This author wrote about a narrator who is told his father has “the best blood in the South” and attempts to pass as white after a lynching in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.

ANSWER: James Weldon Johnson

[10e] Coleman Silk passes as white in The Human Stain, a novel by this author who wrote numerous books featuring Nathan Zuckerman, as well as Portnoy’s Complaint.

ANSWER: Philip Roth [or Philip Milton Roth]

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Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%
Southern California	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Eastern Canada	Main	Y	13	9.23	62%	8%	23%
Florida	Main	Y	4	2.50	25%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	7	8.57	57%	14%	14%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	10	14.00	80%	40%	20%
Upper Mid-Atlantic (1)	Main	Y	10	10.00	70%	20%	10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic (2)	Main	Y	5	8.00	80%	0%	0%
Lower Midwest	Main	Y	4	12.50	50%	75%	0%
Upper Midwest	Main	Y	12	12.50	83%	25%	17%
North	Main	Y	5	12.00	80%	0%	40%
Northeast	Main	Y	12	11.67	75%	25%	17%
Northwest	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
South Central	Main	Y	8	13.75	75%	38%	25%
Southeast	Main	Y	8	15.00	75%	50%	25%
UK	Main	Y	14	9.29	64%	14%	14%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	0%	25%

Data


FIU	UCF B	0	0
FSU	UF B	0	0
UF C	Melbourne A	0	0
UCF A	UF D	10	10