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.

Chi tiết về thư mục
Tác giả chính: Wald, Gayle, 1965-
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2000.
Loạt:New Americanists.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv11smxsg
Mục lục:
  • 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.