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.
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| Fformat: | Licensed eBooks |
| Iaith: | Saesneg |
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Durham [N.C.] :
Duke University Press,
2000.
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| Cyfres: | New Americanists.
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| Mynediad Ar-lein: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv11smxsg |
Tabl Cynhwysion:
- 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.