Neo-passing : performing identity after Jim Crow /

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"This volume seeks to theorize and explore the concept of "neo-passing," or the proliferation of passing in the post-Jim Crow moment. Why--in our "color-blind" or "post-racial" moment--is passing still of such literary and cultural interest? To answer this question...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Godfrey, Mollie, 1979- (Editor ), Young, Vershawn Ashanti (Editor ), Wald, Gayle, 1965- (writer of foreword.), Elam, Michele (writer of afterword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]
Temas:
Passing (Identity) in literature.
African Americans > Race identity.
Race awareness > United States.
African Americans in literature.
Race in literature.
Passing (Identité) dans la littérature.
Noirs américains > Identité ethnique.
Conscience de race > États-Unis.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
Race dans la littérature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American.
Race awareness.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The Neo-Passing Narrative
  • Appendix to the Introduction. Neo-Passing Narratives : Teaching and Scholarly Resources
  • New Histories. Introduction : Passing at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century ; Why Passing Is (Still) Not Passé after More Than 250 Years : Sources from the Past and Present ; Passing for Postracial : Colorblind Reading Practices of Zombies, Sheriffs, and Slaveholders ; Adam Mansbach's Postracial Imaginary in Angry Black White Boy ; Black President Bush : The Racial and Gender Politics behind Dave Chappelle's Presidential Drag ; Seeing Race in Comics : Passing, Witness, and the Spectacle of Racial Violence in Johnson and Pleece's Incognegro
  • New Identities. Introduction : Passing at the Intersections ; Passing Truths : Identity-Immersion Journalism and the Experience of Authenticity ; Passing for Tan : Snooki and the Grotesque Reality of Ethnicity ; The Pass of Least Resistance : Sexual Orientation and Race in ZZ Packer's "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" ; Neo-Passing and Dissociative Identities as Affective Strategies in Frankie and Alice ; "A New Type of Human Being" : Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity as Perpetual Passing in Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex
  • Afterword : Why Neo Now?.

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