That middle world : race, performance, and the politics of passing /

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"During the decades leading up to the Civil War, the idea of white superiority was bolstered by rigid race laws that governed interactions between the races, targeting Black people and relegating them to the lower rungs of the racial caste system. Consequently, American literature-especially th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Charles, Julia S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Passing (Identity) in literature.
Race awareness > United States.
Racially mixed people > Race identity > United States.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Race in literature.
Racially mixed people in literature.
Passing (Identité) dans la littérature.
Conscience de race > États-Unis.
Race dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American
American literature > African American authors
Passing (Identity) in literature
Race awareness
Race in literature
Racially mixed people in literature
Racially mixed people > Race identity
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : That Mandy Oxendine
  • That Middle World
  • That Respectability
  • That Performance
  • That Indefinable Something
  • That Invisibility
  • Epilogue : That Rachel Dolezal.

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