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A32=Jennifer Glaser
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African American studies
African Americans passing
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Alisha Gaines
Allyson Hobbs
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Brandon J. Manning
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changes in African American identity
Christopher M. Brown
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comedy and neo-passing
comedy and race
contesting African American identiry
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Critical Race Theory
cultural criticism and passing
Deborah Elizabeth Whaley
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Derek Adams
disability studies
Eden Osucha
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Gayle Wald
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Jennifer Glaser
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Lara Narcisi
Loran Marsan
Marcia Alesan Dawkins
Martha J. Cutter
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Michele Elam
mixed race studies
neo-passing
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passing
passing in Frankie and Alice
passing in mass media
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passing in the twenty-first century
passing strategies
performance
performing African American identity
post-Jim Crow
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racial violence in graphic novels
sexual orientation and race
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whiteness studies
zombies and passing
ZZ Packer fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9780252083235
- Weight: 399g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Feb 2018
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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 ironies, whites try to pass as black. Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young present essays that explore practices, performances, and texts of neo-passing in our supposedly postracial moment. The authors move from the postracial imagery of Angry Black White Boy and the issues of sexual orientation and race in ZZ Packer's short fiction to the politics of Dave Chappelle's skits as a black President George W. Bush. Together, the works reveal that the questions raised by neo-passing—questions about performing and contesting identity in relation to social norms—remain as relevant today as in the past. Contributors: Derek Adams, Christopher M. Brown, Martha J. Cutter, Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Michele Elam, Alisha Gaines, Jennifer Glaser, Allyson Hobbs, Brandon J. Manning, Loran Marsan, Lara Narcisi, Eden Osucha, Gayle Wald, and Deborah Elizabeth Whaley
Mollie Godfrey is an assistant professor of English at James Madison University. Vershawn Ashanti Young is an associate professor of drama and speech communication at the University of Waterloo and the author of Your Average Nigga: Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity.
