Passing, starring Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, André Holland, Gbenga Akinnagbe, and Antoinette Crowe-Legacy, has finally hit the internet; promising to be an emotional dramatic examination of identity, roles, and choosing one’s place in society.
Passing centers on an act formerly practiced by some very fair-skinned African Americans in the early to mid-1900s. Those light enough to be perceived as white would sometimes hide their true racial identity and move throughout society as white people, thus avoiding racial injustices, violence, and second-class citizenship that Black people were subjected to at the time.Passing follows the story of two Black women, former childhood friends Irene Redfield (Thompson) and Clare Kendry (Negga), both of.
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