Humans are always trying to categorize other individuals due to their visibly different characteristics. They try to use “race” as a scapegoat to justify this type of mentality. They believe that “race is attempt to define human beings by visible differences through scientific methods, and to distinguish them physically, psychologically, intellectually, socially, or culturally.” Consistently throughout many instances in history, this theory has been used to justify racism towards other cultures. From the United States to Europe, and on every continent, this theory is still being used by a majority of people to this day. By trying to categorize people like this, individuals are left the process of trying to redefine what their “race” so that they do not play into the stereotypes that are given to them.…show more content… Clare, like many woman back in the mid 1940s and 1960s passed as a white person to not only get treat better in society, but also to have other privileges that African Americans would not be afforded. Clare used her physical distinction, her “white” features and complexion, to not only gain and maximize her socially differences from her African American counterparts, but to also separate herself from her cultural background. Clare thought that by separating herself from her original culture, her past would never reappear to her white friends and husband, who also do not know that she is black. Although, when her old childhood friend Irene appears, her plan begins to become extremely compromised due the coincidence that Irene is a proud African American woman who is also married to a black
