In Passing by Nella Larson, Clare Kendry divides her identity, into two separate ones, her race and herself. While passing as a typical white American, Clare forgets her roots as a black woman. This forces her to later feel like she is living two separate lives. This similar concept is applied many times throughout Citizen by Claudia Rankine as well, by displaying the narrator’s conflict with choosing to defend their black identity or separate and ignore it in certain situations. However, this shows many members of the black community are faced with this conflict, and are forced to separate their black identity from their American
In Passing by Nella Larson, Clare Kendry divides her identity, into two separate ones, her race and herself. While passing as a typical white American, Clare forgets her roots as a black woman. This forces her to later feel like she is living two separate lives. This similar concept is applied many times throughout Citizen by Claudia Rankine as well, by displaying the narrator’s conflict with choosing to defend their black identity or separate and ignore it in certain situations. However, this shows many members of the black community are faced with this conflict, and are forced to separate their black identity from their American