Neo-PassingAfrican Americans once passed as whites to escape the pains of racism. Today's neo passing has pushed the old idea of passing in extraordinary new directions. A white author uses an Asian pen name; heterosexuals live "out" as gay; and, irony of ironies, whites try to pass as black. Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young present essays that explore practices, performances, and texts of neo passing in our supposedly postracial moment. The authors