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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