I’ve always wondered if coloured families had any stories about folks who were passing for white and then rejoining the family post apartheid

Same with black families who had folks who passed for coloured

By “pass” I mean reclassified and shit

Not Sandra Laing. She had white parents but wasn’t white. That’s very complicated

I read a book called Passing by Nella Larsen about 3 black women passing for white

1 married to a black man who occasionally let people believe she was white when she was alone

1 married to a white man who knew her secret

1 married to a white who had no idea

The 3rd one’s husband nickname her “Nig” because the older she got, the blacker she looked.