Passing, Nella Larsen
- “Clare refuses containment within the unofficial color caste, but she also rejects the usual diminished emotional life for women in their social roles” (p. xvii), Clare is denying the definitions, constraints of color by breaking the boundaries between black and white. - “Larsen envisions Clare as an individual free of the past, family, roots, and ties, and uniquely positioned as both a modern liminal personality and a biracial woman poised to flow into and out of racial determinates and categories, and free to create her own spaces in which to be her biracial, and perhaps bisexual, self.” (p.