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* Faulkner's ''Absalom, Absalom!'' gets mixed up with this trope and HalfBreedDiscrimination as more of the back story about the back story coming out comes out. Although it being Faulkner, a lot of the point is just impressing upon the reader what a total JerkAss the lead really is.
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* Faulkner's ''Absalom, Absalom!'' gets mixed up with this trope and HalfBreedDiscrimination as more of the back story about the back story coming out comes out. Although it being Faulkner, a lot of the point is just impressing upon the reader what a total JerkAss {{Jerkass}} the lead really is.is.
* The entire point of James Weldon Johnson's ''Literature/TheAutobiographyOfAnExColoredMan''. The nameless protagonist is a very light-skinned "octaroon" (or less) in the late 19th-early 20th century, who is nonetheless raised as black--albeit a very sheltered kind of black, only mingling with the black upper crust and with an unusually large number of white people in his social circle (easier to believe in New England). A gifted pianist, he spends his young adulthood in that field, eventually learning ragtime music and touring Europe with a rich white man. However, he [[spoiler:eventually quits ragtime after seeing a lynching, decides to pass as white, and becomes a businessman and marries a white woman, who does not realize his heritage.]] The book is based in part on Johnson's life (he could pass if he grew his facial hair right), but also on the lives of others Johnson knew.
* In ''Literature/TheBalladOfLeeCotton'', the title character is born into a black family, but with an Icelandic DisappearedDad and a mixed race mother he's born looking entirely white. Even though he doesn't attempt to pass as white, he gets problems anyway just because [[InvertedTrope people refuse to believe he's black]]; for instance, he has to get certified black by a lawyer just to get a school to accept him. The lawyer explains the One Drop Rule to him and his mother: "even if you're only one-sixty-fourth part black, Mississippi will give you the other sixty-three parts for free. In fact, they insist upon it."
* In Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's ''Literature/ACivilCampaign'', Count René Vorbretten was briefly considered ineligible to rule his District when it was discovered that he is one-eighth Cetagandan on his grandfather's side. Non-Barrayaran ancestry is not an official bar to holding a countship -- the Emperor himself is one-eighth Betan -- but his political opponents raise the technical point that René's great-grandfather was not actually the son of his presumed great-great-grandfather and therefore shouldn't have inherited the position in the first place. With this technicality to stand upon, and general anti-Cetagandan sentiment to fuel the emotions, the Conservative political faction hoped to remove René and install a cousin in the role more sympathetic to their politics. Thankfully, a precedent in the Barrayaran inheritance law[[note]]"If a horse's ass can be a count, why not [[CaligulasHorse the whole horse]]?"[[/note]] stated that the Count's heir need not necessarily be a blood relative.
%%* ''Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States'' by William Wells Brown features Thomas Jefferson's slave daughter escaping captivity. Yeah.
* The entire point of James Weldon Johnson's ''Literature/TheAutobiographyOfAnExColoredMan''. The nameless protagonist is a very light-skinned "octaroon" (or less) in the late 19th-early 20th century, who is nonetheless raised as black--albeit a very sheltered kind of black, only mingling with the black upper crust and with an unusually large number of white people in his social circle (easier to believe in New England). A gifted pianist, he spends his young adulthood in that field, eventually learning ragtime music and touring Europe with a rich white man. However, he [[spoiler:eventually quits ragtime after seeing a lynching, decides to pass as white, and becomes a businessman and marries a white woman, who does not realize his heritage.]] The book is based in part on Johnson's life (he could pass if he grew his facial hair right), but also on the lives of others Johnson knew.
* In ''Literature/TheBalladOfLeeCotton'', the title character is born into a black family, but with an Icelandic DisappearedDad and a mixed race mother he's born looking entirely white. Even though he doesn't attempt to pass as white, he gets problems anyway just because [[InvertedTrope people refuse to believe he's black]]; for instance, he has to get certified black by a lawyer just to get a school to accept him. The lawyer explains the One Drop Rule to him and his mother: "even if you're only one-sixty-fourth part black, Mississippi will give you the other sixty-three parts for free. In fact, they insist upon it."
* In Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's ''Literature/ACivilCampaign'', Count René Vorbretten was briefly considered ineligible to rule his District when it was discovered that he is one-eighth Cetagandan on his grandfather's side. Non-Barrayaran ancestry is not an official bar to holding a countship -- the Emperor himself is one-eighth Betan -- but his political opponents raise the technical point that René's great-grandfather was not actually the son of his presumed great-great-grandfather and therefore shouldn't have inherited the position in the first place. With this technicality to stand upon, and general anti-Cetagandan sentiment to fuel the emotions, the Conservative political faction hoped to remove René and install a cousin in the role more sympathetic to their politics. Thankfully, a precedent in the Barrayaran inheritance law[[note]]"If a horse's ass can be a count, why not [[CaligulasHorse the whole horse]]?"[[/note]] stated that the Count's heir need not necessarily be a blood relative.
%%* ''Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States'' by William Wells Brown features Thomas Jefferson's slave daughter escaping captivity. Yeah.
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* In ''Literature/TheBalladOfLeeCotton'', the title character is born into a black family, but with an Icelandic DisappearedDad and a mixed race mother he's born looking looking entirely white. Even though he doesn't attempt to pass as white, he gets problems anyway just because [[InvertedTrope people refuse to believe he's black]]; for instance, he has to get certified black by a lawyer just to get a school to accept him. The lawyer explains the One Drop Rule to him and his mother: "even if you're only one-sixty-fourth part black, Mississippi will give you the other sixty-three parts for free. In fact, they insist upon it."
* "''Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States''" by William Wells Brown features Thomas Jefferson"s slave daughter escaping captivity. Yeah.
* Same thing happens at the end of Ann Rinaldi's ''Wolf By the Ears'', as mixed-race Harriet opts to leave Monticello and pass for white.
* Angua of the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' series passes as human instead of as a [[spoiler:werewolf]].
* "''Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States''" by William Wells Brown features Thomas Jefferson"s slave daughter escaping captivity. Yeah.
* Same thing happens at the end of Ann Rinaldi's ''Wolf By the Ears'', as mixed-race Harriet opts to leave Monticello and pass for white.
* Angua of the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' series passes as human instead of as a [[spoiler:werewolf]].
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* "''Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States''" by William Wells Brown features Thomas Jefferson"s slave daughter escaping captivity. Yeah.
* Same thing happens at the end of Ann Rinaldi's ''Wolf By the Ears'', as mixed-race Harriet opts to leave Monticello and pass for white.
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* In ''Literature/TheFreedomMaze'' by Delia Sherman, a girl who counts as white in 1960 goes back in time to 1860, where -- because of her suntan, curly hair, and resemblance to her plantation-owning ancestors -- she is classified as black and assumed to be the offspring of a wayward son of the family and one of his slaves, making her a slave herself. After she returns to her own time, she is assumed to have run away and an advertisement is issued. In the description of her it says, "Could pass for white." Researching her family history, she learns that [[spoiler:after the Civil War, the aforementioned wayward son inherited the plantation and passed off his former-slave wife as a white woman from France -- so as their descendant, the protagonist really does have a few black genes.]]
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* ''The Garies and Their Friends'' (1857) by Frank J. Webb.
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* Fannie Hurst"s novel "''Imitation of Life''" is an interesting case, as it was adapted into a movie in both the US and Mexico, showing the differences in views of passing in both nations.
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* Fannie Hurst"s Hurst's novel "''Imitation of Life''" ''Literature/ImitationOfLife'' is an interesting case, as it was adapted into a movie in both the US and Mexico, showing the differences in views of passing in both nations. nations.
* This is naturally all over ''Literature/TheManInTheHighCastle'', being an AlternateHistory scenario in which the Allies lost UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. One of the main characters, Frank Frink, is actually Frank ''Fink'', a Jew, and hides his identity for obvious reasons. A more minor character, Rudolph Wegener, tells an artist he dislikes that he is Jewish and has undergone plastic surgery to make himself look more "Aryan", although it's left open to interpretation whether this is actually true or whether he is simply saying it to mess with his head. One of the central themes of the novel is the question of at what point a person becomes what he or she is pretending to be.
* In Noah Gordon's ''The Physician'', main character Rob Cole wants to study medicine in the Persian madrassah, where the great Avicenna (Ibn Sina) teaches. However, Christians are not accepted there, but Jews are, so Rob decides to take on the guise of a Jewish student to be admitted. On the way, a Jewish would-be student he makes friends with finds out his secret, but he chooses to help him learn how to be a Jew to pass. This, however, later causes him trouble when, upon returning to England, he crosses paths with a merchant who met him while he was passing.
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* In the Literature/{{Worldwar}} series by Creator/HarryTurtledove, Mordechai Ancielewicz is a Polish Jew fighting in the resistance. While traveling in the countryside, he encounters a farmhouse, and attempts to pass as a (Catholic) Polish partisan. Mordechai catches himself when the FarmersDaughter starts getting flirty (realizing very quickly that dropping his pants would blow his cover immediately, since no Catholic man would be circumsised), and manages to eat the ham they're serving without hesitation, but is caught out when he crosses himself wrong and doesn't put butter on his potatoes. Fortunately for him, they aren't upset about it.
* The entire point of James Weldon Johnson's ''Literature/TheAutobiographyOfAnExColoredMan''. The nameless protagonist is a very light-skinned "octaroon" (or less) in the late 19th-early 20th century, who is nonetheless raised as black--albeit a very sheltered kind of black, only mingling with the black upper crust and with an unusually large number of white people in his social circle (easier to believe in New England). A gifted pianist, he spends his young adulthood in that field, eventually learning ragtime music and touring Europe with a rich white man. However, he [[spoiler:eventually quits ragtime after seeing a lynching, decides to pass as white, and becomes a businessman and marries a white woman, who does not realize his heritage.]] The book is based in part on Johnson's life (he could pass if he grew his facial hair right), but also on the lives of others Johnson knew.
* In ''The Freedom Maze'' by Delia Sherman, a girl who counts as white in 1960 goes back in time to 1860, where -- because of her suntan, curly hair, and resemblance to her plantation-owning ancestors -- she is classified as black and assumed to be the offspring of a wayward son of the family and one of his slaves, making her a slave herself. After she returns to her own time, she is assumed to have run away and an advertisement is issued. In the description of her it says, "Could pass for white." Researching her family history, she learns that [[spoiler:after the Civil War, the aforementioned wayward son inherited the plantation and passed off his former-slave wife as a white woman from France -- so as their descendant, the protagonist really does have a few black genes.]]
* In Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's ''Literature/ACivilCampaign'' count René Vorbretten was briefly considered ineligible to rule his District when it was discovered that he is one-eighth Cetagandan on his grandfather's side. Non-Barrayaran ancestry is not an official bar to holding a countship -- the Emperor himself is one-eighth Betan -- but his political opponents raise the technical point that René's great-grandfather was not actually the son of his presumed great-great-grandfather and therefore shouldn't have inherited the position in the first place. With this technicality to stand upon, and general anti-Cetagandan sentiment to fuel the emotions, the Conservative political faction hoped to remove René and install a cousin in the role more sympathetic to their politics. Thankfully, a precedent in the Barrayaran inheritance law[[note]]"If a horse's ass can be a count, why not [[CaligulasHorse the whole horse]]?"[[/note]] stated that the Count's heir need not necessarily be a blood relative.
* This is naturally all over ''Literature/TheManInTheHighCastle'', being an AlternateHistory scenario in which the Allies lost UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. One of the main characters, Frank Frink, is actually Frank ''Fink'', a Jew, and hides his identity for obvious reasons. A more minor character, Rudolph Wegener, tells an artist he dislikes that he is Jewish and has undergone plastic surgery to make himself look more "Aryan", although it's left open to interpretation whether this is actually true or whether he is simply saying it to mess with his head. One of the central themes of the novel is the question of at what point a person becomes what he or she is pretending to be.
* In Noah Gordon's ''The Physician'', main character Rob Cole wants to study medicine in the Persian madrassah, where the great Avicenna (Ibn Sina) teaches. However, Christians are not accepted there, but Jews are, so Rob decides to take on the guise of a Jewish student to be admitted. On the way, a Jewish would-be student he makes friends with finds out his secret, but he chooses to help him learn how to be a Jew to pass. This, however, later causes him trouble when, upon returning to England, he crosses paths with a merchant who met him while he was passing.
* The entire point of James Weldon Johnson's ''Literature/TheAutobiographyOfAnExColoredMan''. The nameless protagonist is a very light-skinned "octaroon" (or less) in the late 19th-early 20th century, who is nonetheless raised as black--albeit a very sheltered kind of black, only mingling with the black upper crust and with an unusually large number of white people in his social circle (easier to believe in New England). A gifted pianist, he spends his young adulthood in that field, eventually learning ragtime music and touring Europe with a rich white man. However, he [[spoiler:eventually quits ragtime after seeing a lynching, decides to pass as white, and becomes a businessman and marries a white woman, who does not realize his heritage.]] The book is based in part on Johnson's life (he could pass if he grew his facial hair right), but also on the lives of others Johnson knew.
* In ''The Freedom Maze'' by Delia Sherman, a girl who counts as white in 1960 goes back in time to 1860, where -- because of her suntan, curly hair, and resemblance to her plantation-owning ancestors -- she is classified as black and assumed to be the offspring of a wayward son of the family and one of his slaves, making her a slave herself. After she returns to her own time, she is assumed to have run away and an advertisement is issued. In the description of her it says, "Could pass for white." Researching her family history, she learns that [[spoiler:after the Civil War, the aforementioned wayward son inherited the plantation and passed off his former-slave wife as a white woman from France -- so as their descendant, the protagonist really does have a few black genes.]]
* In Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's ''Literature/ACivilCampaign'' count René Vorbretten was briefly considered ineligible to rule his District when it was discovered that he is one-eighth Cetagandan on his grandfather's side. Non-Barrayaran ancestry is not an official bar to holding a countship -- the Emperor himself is one-eighth Betan -- but his political opponents raise the technical point that René's great-grandfather was not actually the son of his presumed great-great-grandfather and therefore shouldn't have inherited the position in the first place. With this technicality to stand upon, and general anti-Cetagandan sentiment to fuel the emotions, the Conservative political faction hoped to remove René and install a cousin in the role more sympathetic to their politics. Thankfully, a precedent in the Barrayaran inheritance law[[note]]"If a horse's ass can be a count, why not [[CaligulasHorse the whole horse]]?"[[/note]] stated that the Count's heir need not necessarily be a blood relative.
* This is naturally all over ''Literature/TheManInTheHighCastle'', being an AlternateHistory scenario in which the Allies lost UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. One of the main characters, Frank Frink, is actually Frank ''Fink'', a Jew, and hides his identity for obvious reasons. A more minor character, Rudolph Wegener, tells an artist he dislikes that he is Jewish and has undergone plastic surgery to make himself look more "Aryan", although it's left open to interpretation whether this is actually true or whether he is simply saying it to mess with his head. One of the central themes of the novel is the question of at what point a person becomes what he or she is pretending to be.
* In Noah Gordon's ''The Physician'', main character Rob Cole wants to study medicine in the Persian madrassah, where the great Avicenna (Ibn Sina) teaches. However, Christians are not accepted there, but Jews are, so Rob decides to take on the guise of a Jewish student to be admitted. On the way, a Jewish would-be student he makes friends with finds out his secret, but he chooses to help him learn how to be a Jew to pass. This, however, later causes him trouble when, upon returning to England, he crosses paths with a merchant who met him while he was passing.
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%%* At the end of Ann Rinaldi's ''Wolf By the Ears'', mixed-race Harriet opts to leave Monticello and pass for white.
* In theLiterature/{{Worldwar}} ''Literature/{{Worldwar}}'' series by Creator/HarryTurtledove, Mordechai Ancielewicz is a Polish Jew fighting in the resistance. While traveling in the countryside, he encounters a farmhouse, and attempts to pass as a (Catholic) Polish partisan. Mordechai catches himself when the FarmersDaughter starts getting flirty (realizing very quickly that dropping his pants would blow his cover immediately, since no Catholic man would be circumsised), and manages to eat the ham they're serving without hesitation, but is caught out when he crosses himself wrong and doesn't put butter on his potatoes. Fortunately for him, they aren't upset about it. \n* The entire point of James Weldon Johnson's ''Literature/TheAutobiographyOfAnExColoredMan''. The nameless protagonist is a very light-skinned "octaroon" (or less) in the late 19th-early 20th century, who is nonetheless raised as black--albeit a very sheltered kind of black, only mingling with the black upper crust and with an unusually large number of white people in his social circle (easier to believe in New England). A gifted pianist, he spends his young adulthood in that field, eventually learning ragtime music and touring Europe with a rich white man. However, he [[spoiler:eventually quits ragtime after seeing a lynching, decides to pass as white, and becomes a businessman and marries a white woman, who does not realize his heritage.]] The book is based in part on Johnson's life (he could pass if he grew his facial hair right), but also on the lives of others Johnson knew.\n* In ''The Freedom Maze'' by Delia Sherman, a girl who counts as white in 1960 goes back in time to 1860, where -- because of her suntan, curly hair, and resemblance to her plantation-owning ancestors -- she is classified as black and assumed to be the offspring of a wayward son of the family and one of his slaves, making her a slave herself. After she returns to her own time, she is assumed to have run away and an advertisement is issued. In the description of her it says, "Could pass for white." Researching her family history, she learns that [[spoiler:after the Civil War, the aforementioned wayward son inherited the plantation and passed off his former-slave wife as a white woman from France -- so as their descendant, the protagonist really does have a few black genes.]]\n* In Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's ''Literature/ACivilCampaign'' count René Vorbretten was briefly considered ineligible to rule his District when it was discovered that he is one-eighth Cetagandan on his grandfather's side. Non-Barrayaran ancestry is not an official bar to holding a countship -- the Emperor himself is one-eighth Betan -- but his political opponents raise the technical point that René's great-grandfather was not actually the son of his presumed great-great-grandfather and therefore shouldn't have inherited the position in the first place. With this technicality to stand upon, and general anti-Cetagandan sentiment to fuel the emotions, the Conservative political faction hoped to remove René and install a cousin in the role more sympathetic to their politics. Thankfully, a precedent in the Barrayaran inheritance law[[note]]"If a horse's ass can be a count, why not [[CaligulasHorse the whole horse]]?"[[/note]] stated that the Count's heir need not necessarily be a blood relative.\n* This is naturally all over ''Literature/TheManInTheHighCastle'', being an AlternateHistory scenario in which the Allies lost UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. One of the main characters, Frank Frink, is actually Frank ''Fink'', a Jew, and hides his identity for obvious reasons. A more minor character, Rudolph Wegener, tells an artist he dislikes that he is Jewish and has undergone plastic surgery to make himself look more "Aryan", although it's left open to interpretation whether this is actually true or whether he is simply saying it to mess with his head. One of the central themes of the novel is the question of at what point a person becomes what he or she is pretending to be.\n* In Noah Gordon's ''The Physician'', main character Rob Cole wants to study medicine in the Persian madrassah, where the great Avicenna (Ibn Sina) teaches. However, Christians are not accepted there, but Jews are, so Rob decides to take on the guise of a Jewish student to be admitted. On the way, a Jewish would-be student he makes friends with finds out his secret, but he chooses to help him learn how to be a Jew to pass. This, however, later causes him trouble when, upon returning to England, he crosses paths with a merchant who met him while he was passing.
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