Neo-Passing Performing Identity after Jim Crow |
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Editor:
| Godfrey, Mollie Young, Vershawn |
Foreword by:
| Wald, Gayle |
Afterword by:
| Elam, Michele |
Contribution by:
| Adams, Derek Brown, Christopher M. Cutter, Martha J. Dawkins, Marcia Alesan Gaines, Alisha Glaser, Jennifer Hobbs, Allyson Manning, Brandon J. Marsan, Loran Narcisi, Lara Osucha, Eden Whaley, Deborah Elizabeth |
ISBN: | 978-0-252-08323-5 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2018 |
Publisher: | University of Illinois Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $28.00 |
Book Description:
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Crossing old boundaries to create new identities
African Americans once passed as whites to escape the pains of racism. Today's neo-passing has pushed the old idea of passing in extraordinary new directions. A white author uses an Asian pen name; heterosexuals live "out as gay; and, irony of ......
Crossing old boundaries to create new identities
African Americans once passed as whites to escape the pains of racism. Today's neo-passing has pushed the old idea of passing in extraordinary new directions. A white author uses an Asian pen name; heterosexuals live "out as gay; and, irony of ......