Abstract:
Much has been said and written recently about racism in all its forms, and how people
confronted to such situations would react to avoid it. Racial passing was one of the means
African-Americans adopted to escape racism and discrimination. Passing (1929), a novella
written by the African-American writer Nella Larsen and From Caucasia, With Love
(1998), a novel written by the American writer Danzy Senna, are two selected works of
literature meant to show how and why people were passing for white from the past to the
present.In this respect, the present dissertation aims to show that racial passing still exists
in the United States of America; a supposedly post-racial country which celebrates
difference.
