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Danielle Evans and Brit Bennett on the lies we tell ourselves

NPR's Book of the Day

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Passing for White?

Stella is constantly performing, and that performance is also constantly changing. She has to perform whiteness in a way that is often unacceptable to the other white people around her. And yet, stella, the one who who lives her life as a white woman, finds she cannot escape her identity. It keeps tracking her down.

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