Neo-passing : performing identity after Jim Crow /

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Imprint:Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]
Description:xvii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:English
Subject:Passing (Identity) in literature.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Race awareness -- United States.
African Americans in literature.
Race in literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Passing (Identity) in literature.
Race awareness.
Race in literature.
18.06 Anglo-American literature.
United States.
United States.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11671215
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Other authors / contributors:Godfrey, Mollie, 1979- editor.
Young, Vershawn Ashanti, editor.
Wald, Gayle, 1965- writer of foreword.
Elam, Michele, writer of afterword.
ISBN:9780252041587
0252041585
9780252083235
0252083237
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"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, chapters in this book focus on a range of passing practices, performances and texts that are part of the emerging genre of what we call neo-passing narratives. Neo-passing narratives are contemporary narratives that depict someone being taken for an identity other than what s/he is considered really to be. That these texts are written, constructed, or produced at a time when passing should have passed reveals that the questions passing raises--questions about how identity is performed and contested in relation to social norms--are just as relevant now as they were at the turn of the twentieth century"--