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Mysteries of the Visible
“Passing” reminds us that the raced body, like race itself, is an enigma of visual experience....
Anne Anlin Cheng is professor of English at Princeton University. She is the author of The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief; Second Skin: Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface; and Ornamentalism.