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9780252083235: Neo-Passing: Performing Identity After Jim Crow
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ISBN 10: 0252083237 ISBN 13: 9780252083235
Editorial: University of Illinois Press, 2018

Sinopsis

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

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Acerca del autor

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.

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Editorial
University of Illinois Press
Año de publicación
2018
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0252083237
ISBN 13 
9780252083235
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
296
Editor
Godfrey Mollie, Young Vershawn
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