The Passing Figure: Racial Confusion in Modern American LiteraturePeter Lang, 1996 - 142 pages How and when does literature most effectively uncover race to be a mataphor? The passing figure, a light-skinned African-American capable and willing to pass for white, provides the thematic focus to this provocative study. In exploring the social and cultural history of this distinctly American phenomenon, Bennett moves freely between literature, film, and music, arguing that the passing figure is crucial to our understanding of past and present conceptions of race. |
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... called the " first full - length satire by a black American " ( Peplow 56 ) . George Schuyler does not so much typify his time as he intensifies it . Born at the end of the last century and having seen the Great War as a first ...
... called the " first full - length satire by a black American " ( Peplow 56 ) . George Schuyler does not so much typify his time as he intensifies it . Born at the end of the last century and having seen the Great War as a first ...
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... called them out again on the other side . They came , dressed in derby hats , coats , pants , vest , stiff collar and polka - dot tie , undoubtedly , said my friend , each with an Eversharp pencil in his pocket , and all singing the ...
... called them out again on the other side . They came , dressed in derby hats , coats , pants , vest , stiff collar and polka - dot tie , undoubtedly , said my friend , each with an Eversharp pencil in his pocket , and all singing the ...
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... Called My Back : Writings by Radical Women of Color , edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua ; Women's Oppression Today : Problems in Marxist Feminist Analysis , Michele Barrett ; and Feminist Theory : From Margin to Center , bell ...
... Called My Back : Writings by Radical Women of Color , edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua ; Women's Oppression Today : Problems in Marxist Feminist Analysis , Michele Barrett ; and Feminist Theory : From Margin to Center , bell ...
Contents
An Introduction to Passing | 1 |
Theme to Genre | 35 |
How White People Pass | 61 |
Copyright | |
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