”Passing is a deception that enables a person to adopt certain roles or identities from which he would be barred by prevailing social standards in the absence of his misleading conduct.” (Kennedy, 2001). There were and still are individuals whose physical appearance allows him or her to present himself as “white” but whose “black” heritage makes him an African American according to dominant racial rules. (Kennedy, 2001). Even though “passing” was popular during the 1920s and 1930s, it flourished between 1947 and 1957 where the dawn of the second Red Scare was making its way through the United States. “The Second Red Scare was a fear-driven phenomenon brought on by the growing power of communist countries in the wake of the Second World War,
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He was no doubt successful in his actions until he was put to a stop for his barbaric, aggressive, and accusing ways. He continued to claim that there was an obscene amount of communists that had infiltrated the United States. He had then long created the term “McCarthyism” making it the label for the tactic of undermining political opponents by making unsubstantiated attacks on their loyalty to the United States (Storrs, 2015). McCarthyism during the red scare was far less concerning compared to the racism issues that were taking place in America. However no one should take this lightly. McCarthyism comes from the name Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy. During the Red Scare, he expanded and abused his power. Anyone who seemed at all un-American was accused of being a communist; wrongly convicting anyone while creating a blacklist targeting multiple people including celebrities and placed them in jail. According to Storrs (2015), The American Communist Party was a serious threat to national security, government and nongovernment actors at national, state, and local levels developed a range of mechanisms for identifying and punishing Communists and their alleged sympathizers. For few, “espionage charges resulted in execution. Many thousands of Americans faced congressional committee hearings, FBI investigations, loyalty tests, and sedition laws; negative judgements in those arenas brought consequences ranging from imprisonment to deportation, loss of passport, or, most commonly, long-term unemployment” (Storrs,
He was no doubt successful in his actions until he was put to a stop for his barbaric, aggressive, and accusing ways. He continued to claim that there was an obscene amount of communists that had infiltrated the United States. He had then long created the term “McCarthyism” making it the label for the tactic of undermining political opponents by making unsubstantiated attacks on their loyalty to the United States (Storrs, 2015). McCarthyism during the red scare was far less concerning compared to the racism issues that were taking place in America. However no one should take this lightly. McCarthyism comes from the name Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy. During the Red Scare, he expanded and abused his power. Anyone who seemed at all un-American was accused of being a communist; wrongly convicting anyone while creating a blacklist targeting multiple people including celebrities and placed them in jail. According to Storrs (2015), The American Communist Party was a serious threat to national security, government and nongovernment actors at national, state, and local levels developed a range of mechanisms for identifying and punishing Communists and their alleged sympathizers. For few, “espionage charges resulted in execution. Many thousands of Americans faced congressional committee hearings, FBI investigations, loyalty tests, and sedition laws; negative judgements in those arenas brought consequences ranging from imprisonment to deportation, loss of passport, or, most commonly, long-term unemployment” (Storrs,