Near Black White-to-Black Passing in American Culture / Baz Dreisinger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dreisinger, Baz, 1976-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--United States--History.

Motion pictures.

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Race in motion pictures.

Race in literature.

Popular culture--United States.

Popular culture.

Passing (Identity)--United States.

Passing (Identity).

White people--Race identity--United States.

White people.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 184 p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the United States, the notion of racial "passing" is usually associated with blacks and other minorities who seek to present themselves as part of the white majority.Yet as Baz Dreisinger demonstrates in this fascinating study, another form of this phenomenon also occurs, if less frequently, in American culture: cases in which legally white.

Contents:

White panic and white passing: slavery and reconstruction

Dy(e)ing to be black: "Mars Jeems's nightmare," Black like me, and Watermelon man

Black like she: Grace Halsell and the sexuality of passing

Contagious beats: passing, autobiography, and discourses of American music

Is passing passe in a "post-race" world?

Epilogue: hits and misses of a racial free-for-all.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-178) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781613760833

1613760833

OCLC:

794701579