Research Catalog

Title

Neo-passing : performing identity after Jim Crow / edited by Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young ; foreword by Gayle Wald ; afterword by Michele Elam.

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]

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Additional Authors

• Godfrey, Mollie, 1979-
• Young, Vershawn Ashanti
• Wald, Gayle, 1965-
• Elam, Michele

Description

xvii, 274 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"This volume seeks to theorize and explore the concept of "neo-passing," or the proliferation of passing in the post-Jim Crow moment. Why--in our "color-blind" or "post-racial" moment--is passing still of such literary and cultural interest? To answer this question, chapters in this book focus on a range of passing practices, performances and texts that are part of the emerging genre of what we call neo-passing narratives. Neo-passing narratives are contemporary narratives that depict someone being taken for an identity other than what s/he is considered really to be. That these texts are written, constructed, or produced at a time when passing should have passed reveals that the questions passing raises--questions about how identity is performed and contested in relation to social norms--are just as relevant now as they were at the turn of the twentieth century"--

Subject

• Passing (Identity) in literature
• African Americans > Race identity
• Race awareness > United States
• African Americans in literature
• Race in literature
• Race awareness
• United States > Race relations > In literature
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Passing at the turn of the twenty-first century / Allyson Hobbs -- Why passing is (still) not passé after more than 250 years: sources from the past and present / Martha J. Cutter -- Passing for postracial: colorblind reading practices of Zombies, sheriffs, and slaveholders / Christopher M. Brown -- Adam Mansbach's postracial imaginary in Angry Black White Boy / Brandon J. Manning -- Black President Bush: the racial and gender politics behind Dave Chappelle's presidential drag / Eden Osucha -- Seeing race in comics: passing, witness, and the spectacle of racial violence in Johnson and Pleece's Incognegro / Jennifer Glaser -- Passing at the intersections / Marcia Alesan Dawkins -- Passing truths: identity-immersion journalism and the experience of authenticity / Loran Marsan -- Passing for Tan: snooki and the grotesque reality of ethnicity / Alish Gaines -- The pass of least resistance: sexual orientation and race in ZZ Packer's "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" / Derek Adams -- Neo-passing and dissociative identities as affective strategies in Frankie and Alice / Deborah Elizabeth Whaley -- "A New Type of Human Being": gender, sexuality, and ethnicity as perpetual passing in Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex / Lara Narcisi.

Call Number

Sc E 18-557

ISBN

• 9780252041587
• 0252041585
• 9780252083235
• 0252083237

LCCN

• 2017057076
• 99976226081

OCLC

1005108650

Title

Neo-passing : performing identity after Jim Crow / edited by Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young ; foreword by Gayle Wald ; afterword by Michele Elam.

Publisher

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Godfrey, Mollie, 1979- editor.

Young, Vershawn Ashanti, editor.

Wald, Gayle, 1965- writer of foreword.

Elam, Michele, writer of afterword.

Other Standard Identifier

99976226081

Research Call Number

Sc E 18-557