Various kinds of "passing" novels have remained popular for years, beginning with slave narratives such as The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass or Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Like these earlier texts, Caucasia also suggests that passing is done primarily for survival, but Birdie's passing is one which lasts considerably longer.
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