Passing interest : racial passing in US novels, memoirs, television, and film, 1990-2010 /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Nerad, Julie, 1969- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]
Series:	SUNY series in multiethnic literature.
Subjects:	American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. American literature > 21st century > History and criticism. Passing (Identity) > United States > History > 20th century. Passing (Identity) > United States > History > 21st century. Passing (Identity) in literature. Passing (Identity) in motion pictures. Race in literature. Race in motion pictures.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The (not so) new face of America / Julie Cary Nerad
On the margins of a movement: passing in three contemporary memoirs / Irina Negrea
"A cousin to blackness": race and identity in Bliss Broyard's One drop: My father's hidden life / Lynn Washington and Julie Cary Nerad
Can one really choose?: passing and self-identification at the turn of the 21st century / Jené Schoenfeld
Passing in blackface: the intimate drama of post-racialism on Black.White. / Eden Osucha
Broke right in half: racial passing of/in Alice Randall's The wind done gone / Julie Cary Nerad
Passing for Chicano, passing for White: negotiating Filipino American identity in Brian Ascalon Roley's American son / Amanda Page
Race in the Marketplace: Postmodern Passing and Ali G / Ana Mendes
Passing for Black, White, and Jewish: mixed race identity in Rebecca Walker and Danzy Senna / Lori Harrison-Kahan
Smiling faces: Chameleon Street, racial passing/performativity, and film blackness / Michael B. Gillespie
Consuming performances: race, media, and the failure of the cultural mulatto in Bamboozled and Erasure / Meredith McCarroll.