| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | We Wear the Mask | 2017 | Brando Skyhorse | Buy |
We Wear the Mask (2017) is an anthology co-edited by Brando Skyhorse and Lisa Page. The title comes from Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem, and the book collects fifteen personal essays on passing in America. Contributors include Margo Jefferson, Achy Obejas, and Sergio Troncoso. Skyhorse and Page both contribute their own essays drawn from direct experience with racial and ethnic passing.
There are one books in the Brando Skyhorse Anthologies series, published in 2017.
The first book in the Brando Skyhorse Anthologies series is We Wear the Mask, published in 2017.
We Wear the Mask (2017) collects fifteen essays from different writers about passing in America, meaning the act of presenting as a race, class, or identity you were not born into. Skyhorse writes about passing as American Indian on his college applications; co-editor Lisa Page writes about her Black great-grandmother passing as white in Mississippi.
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