The privilege of "white passing" is complicated. Racial passing occurs when a person of one racial group is classified/accepted as a member of a different racial group.
Growing up in Hawai'i, depending on the situation, I fell under the category of local, hapa, or haole. I felt the constant need of being seen as most of my peers or 'not white'. Once I moved to the mainland for school, my race always came up as a talking point. I had the perfect script. I would talk about my mothers ancestry and explain that although I was born and raised in Hawai'i, I wasn't Hawaiian.
We had a great conversation about 'personal scripts' at the CMRS conference in LA (February 2017). Someone asked: "how do we resist the question" (aka instead of being willing participants in the social construct of race, how do we resist the reaction to put us in a category or prove our identity--how do we keep the lines blurred).
Here are a few strategies:
Do "White Passing" PoC have White Privilege?
By Julia Stone // The Odyssey Online
On Being Non-White, But Passing Terribly Well
By Patricia Gutierrez // Everyday Feminism