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Title Passing interest : racial passing in US novels, memoirs, television, and film, 1990-2010 / edited by Julie Cary Nerad
Published Albany, NY : SUNY Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 348 pages)
Series SUNY series in multiethnic literature
SUNY series in multiethnic literature.
Contents Introduction: The (not so) new face of America / Julie Cary Nerad -- On the margins of a movement: passing in three contemporary memoirs / Irina Negrea -- "A cousin to blackness": race and identity in Bliss Broyard's One drop: My father's hidden life / Lynn Washington and Julie Cary Nerad -- Can one really choose?: passing and self-identification at the turn of the 21st century / Jené Schoenfeld -- Passing in blackface: the intimate drama of post-racialism on Black. White. / Eden Osucha -- Broke right in half: racial passing of/in Alice Randall's The wind done gone / Julie Cary Nerad -- Passing for Chicano, passing for White: negotiating Filipino American identity in Brian Ascalon Roley's American son / Amanda Page -- Race in the Marketplace: Postmodern Passing and Ali G / Ana Mendes -- Passing for Black, White, and Jewish: mixed race identity in Rebecca Walker and Danzy Senna / Lori Harrison-Kahan -- Smiling faces: Chameleon Street, racial passing/performativity, and film blackness / Michael B. Gillespie -- Consuming performances: race, media, and the failure of the cultural mulatto in Bamboozled and Erasure / Meredith McCarroll
Summary "The first volume to focus on the trope of racial passing in novels, memoirs, television, and films published or produced between 1990 and 2010, Passing Interest takes the scholarly conversation on passing into the twenty-first century. With contributors working in the fields of African American studies, American studies, cultural studies, film studies, literature, and media studies, this book offers a rich, interdisciplinary survey of critical approaches to a broad range of contemporary passing texts. Contributors frame recent passing texts with a wide array of cultural discourses, including immigration law, the Post-Soul Aesthetic, contemporary political satire, affirmative action, the paradoxes of "colorblindness," and the rhetoric of "post-racialism"-- Back cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
SUBJECT Andrae, A. gnd
Universidad Sergio Arboleda gnd
Bibel Philemonbrief gnd
Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
Passing (Identity) -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Passing (Identity) -- United States -- History -- 21st century
Passing (Identity) in literature.
Passing (Identity) in motion pictures.
Race in literature.
Race in motion pictures.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American literature
Passing (Identity)
Passing (Identity) in literature
Passing (Identity) in motion pictures
Race in literature
Race in motion pictures
Autobiografie
Amerikanisches Englisch
Fernsehsendung
Rasse Motiv
Verwechslung Motiv
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Nerad, Julie, 1969- editor.
ISBN 9781438452296
1438452292