By Julie Cary Nerad
The first quantity to target the trope of racial passing in novels, memoirs, tv, and movies released or produced among 1990 and 2010, Passing Interest takes the scholarly dialog on passing into the twenty-first century. With members operating within the fields of African American stories, American stories, cultural stories, movie experiences, literature, and media reviews, this publication deals a wealthy, interdisciplinary survey of serious ways to a extensive variety of latest passing texts. members body contemporary passing texts with a wide range of cultural discourses, together with immigration legislations, the Post-Soul Aesthetic, modern political satire, affirmative motion, the paradoxes of “colorblindness,” and the rhetoric of “post-racialism.” Many discover no matter if “one drop” of blood nonetheless governs our experience of racial id, or to what volume modern American tradition enables the racially indeterminate person. a few essays open the scholarly dialog to target “ethnic” passers—individuals who complicate the normal black-white binary—while others discover the slippage among conventional racial passing and comparable kinds of racial functionality, together with blackface minstrelsy and racial masquerade.
“…this quantity will turn out worthy to these in a huge spectrum of fields, together with movie, literature, and cultural experiences … hugely recommended.” — CHOICE
Julie Cary Nerad is affiliate Professor of yank Literature at Morgan kingdom University.
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