Crossing the line : racial passing in twentieth-century U.S. literature and culture /

Examines constructions of racial identity through the exploration of passing narratives including Black Like Me and forties jazz musician Mezz Mezzrow's memoir Really the Blues.

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Wald, Gayle, 1965-
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2000.
سلاسل:New Americanists.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv11smxsg
جدول المحتويات:
  • Introduction : Race, passing, and cultural representation
  • Home again : racial negotiations in modernist African American passing narratives
  • Mezz Mezzrow and the voluntary negro blues
  • Boundaries lost and found : racial passing and cinematic representation, circa 1949
  • "I'm through with passing" : postpassing narratives in Black popular literary culture
  • "A most disagreeable mirror" : reflections of white identity in Black like me
  • Epilogue : Passing, "color blindness," and contemporary discourses of race and identity.