Category: Passing

  • School for Tricksters: A Novel in Stories Texas A&M University Press Consortium (Southern Methodist University Press) 2011-01-11 248 pages 6×9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-87074-563-8 Chris Gavaler, Visiting Assistant Professor of English Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia This is a novel in stories depicting radical incidents of racial crossing in the early twentieth century. The alternating…

  • Crimes of Performance Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society Volume 13, Issue 1 (2011) Special Issue: Black Critiques of Capital: Radicalism, Resistance, and Visions of Social Justice pages 29-45 DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2011.551476 Uri McMillan, Assistant Professor of English University of California, Los Angeles In this article, I focus on the intersections between…

  • Professor Daniel J. Sharfstein to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi W. Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #230 – Professor…

  • First woman among 17 elected to baseball Hall Associated Press 2006-02-27 TAMPA, Fla.—Effa Manley became the first woman elected to the baseball Hall of Fame when the former Newark Eagles executive was among 17 people from the Negro Leagues and pre-Negro Leagues chosen Monday by a special committee. “This is a historic day at the…

  • Author Talk and Book Signing: Bob Luke National Portrait Gallery Bookstore Eighth and F Streets NW Washington, D.C. 2011-10-19, 18:00-19:00 EDT (Local Time) Bob Luke discusses and signs copies of The Most Famous Woman in Baseball: Effa Manley and the Negro Leagues. Manley’s life played out against the backdrop of the Jim Crow years, when…

  • The Most Famous Woman in Baseball: Effa Manley and the Negro Leagues Potomac Books, Inc. March 2011 256 pages 26 b&w Images; Notes; Suggested Reading; Appendix; Index 6″ x 9″ Cloth ISBN: 978-1-59797-546-9 Bob Luke Never one to mince words, Effa Manley once wrote a letter to sportswriter Art Carter, saying that she hoped they…

  • An Analysis of the Fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt Drake University February 1988 121 pages Harold James Bruxvoort A Dissertation Presented to The College of Arts and Sciences Drake University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Arts Summary of Author: Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) is a black short story author…

  • White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP The New Press Fall 2002 496 pages Trim: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-56584-773-6 Kenneth R. Janken, Professor, African and Afro-American Studies University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill A publishing landmark, the first biography of the man who brought the NAACP to national prominence From…

  • Walter White and Passing Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 2, Issue 1 (2005) pages 17-27 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X05050034 Kenneth R. Janken, Professor, African and Afro-American Studies University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Walter White, the blond, blue-eyed Atlantan, was a voluntary Negro, that is, an African American who appears to be White…

  • Mammy versus mulatta: A rhetorical analysis of the act of passing and the influence of controlling images in Fannie Hurst’s “Imitation of Life” Arizona State University May 2010 189 pages Publication Number: AAT 3407107 ISBN: 9781109743265 Allison Parker A Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy Fannie Hurst’s…