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Neo-Passing

Name: Neo-Passing
Brand: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
SKU: 9780252041587
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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESSISBN: 9780252041587

Performing Identity after Jim Crow

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Edited by Mollie Godfrey, Vershawn Young, Foreword by Gayle Wald, Afterword by Michele Elam
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Release Date: May 14, 2018
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Pages: 296

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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 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-passingquestions about performing and contesting identity in relation to social normsremain 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

Excellently introduced by Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young, the ten essays collected in this volume offer a wealth of information, from a working bibliography of neo-passing narratives to interpretive overviews of passing, old and new. The essays suggest that despite all historical, legal, and attitudinal changes in the course of the twentieth century, race remains a central obsession in the United States.--Werner Sollors, author of The Temptation of Despair: Tales of the 1940s

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