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Author:   Julie Cary Nerad
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.426kg
ISBN:  

9781438452289

ISBN 10:   1438452284
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   02 July 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Preface: The ""Posts"" of Passing Gayle Wald Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: The (Not So) New Face of America Julie Cary Nerad 2. On the Margins of Movement: Passing in Three Contemporary Memoirs Irina Negrea 3. ""A Cousin to Blackness"": Race and Identity in Bliss Broyard's One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life Lynn Washington and Julie Cary Nerad 4. Can One Really Choose? Passing and Self-Identification at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Jene Schoenfeld 5. Passing in Blackface: The Intimate Drama of Post-Racialism on Black. White. Eden Osucha 6. Broke Right in Half: Passing of/in Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone Julie Cary Nerad 7. Passing for Chicano, Passing for White: Negotiating Filipino American Identity in Brian Ascalon Roley's American Son Amanda Page 8. Race in the Marketplace: Postmodern Passing and Ali G Ana Cristina Mendes 9. Passing for Black, White, and Jewish: Mixed-Race Identity in Rebecca Walker and Danzy Senna Lori Harrison-Kahan 10. Smiling Faces: Chameleon Street, Racial Passing/Performativity, and Film Blackness Michael B. Gillespie 11. Consuming Performances: Race, Media, and the Failure of the Cultural Mulatto in Bamboozled and Erasure Meredith McCarroll Bibliography Contributor Biographies Index"

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...this volume will prove useful to those in a broad spectrum of fields, including film, literature, and cultural studies ... Highly recommended. - CHOICE

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Julie Cary Nerad is Associate Professor of American Literature at Morgan State University.

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