Crossing the Line
Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture
1st Edition
Published on 24. July 2000
272 pages
978-0-8223-8092-4 (ISBN)
Description
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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Gayle Wald is Assistant Professor of English at George Washington University.
Content
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Race, Passing, and Cultural Representation
1. Home Again: Racial Negotiations in Modernist African American Passing Narratives
2. Mezz Mezzrow and the Voluntary Negro Blues
3. Boundaries Lost and Found: Racial Passing and Cinematic Representation, circa 1949
4. "I'm Through with Passing": Postpassing Narratives in Black Popular Literary Culture
5. "A Most Disagreeable Mirror": Reflections on White Identity in Black Like Me
Epilogue: Passing, "Color Blindness," and Contemporary Discourses of Race and Identity
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Race, Passing, and Cultural Representation
1. Home Again: Racial Negotiations in Modernist African American Passing Narratives
2. Mezz Mezzrow and the Voluntary Negro Blues
3. Boundaries Lost and Found: Racial Passing and Cinematic Representation, circa 1949
4. "I'm Through with Passing": Postpassing Narratives in Black Popular Literary Culture
5. "A Most Disagreeable Mirror": Reflections on White Identity in Black Like Me
Epilogue: Passing, "Color Blindness," and Contemporary Discourses of Race and Identity
Notes
Bibliography
Index
