Category: Passing

  • Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novels [Review] Rocky Mountain Review Rocky Mountain Language Association Volume 61, Number 1 (Spring 2007) pages 41-43 Susana M. Morris, Assistant Professor of English Auburn University Ryan Simmons. Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novels. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. 198p. Ryan Simmons’ Chesnutt and Realism:…

  • Passing as Black The University of Vermont University Communications 2011-03-30 Lee Ann Cox The new dynamics of biracial identity in America There’s a rule everybody knows. Not the golden one. Since the days of slavery and Jim Crow segregation, when “one drop” of black ancestry determined the whole of who you were, black-by-default is a…

  • Minstrel passing: Citizenship, race change, and motherhood in 1850s America Saint Louis University 2009 116 pages Publication Number: AAT 3383188 ISBN: 9781109452945 Roshaunda D. Cade, Writing Coordinator, Academic Resource Center Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Saint Louis University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements…

  • Midday with Dan Rodricks 3-8-11 Hour 2 [The Invisible Line: Daniel Sharfstein] WYPR 88.1 FM Baltimore, Maryland 2011-03-08 Dan Rodricks, Host Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University The Invisible Line: Daniel Sharfstein, a Vanderbilt law professor visiting Baltimore for an engagement at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, followed three families, from the Revolutionary…

  • The Invisible Line: American families’ journeys from black to white Research news@Vanderbilt Vanderbilt University 2011-02-17 Amy Wolf The idea of someone transitioning from black to white, without science or surgery, seems hard to grasp on the surface. Yet Vanderbilt Law School professor Daniel J. Sharfstein finds that African Americans have continually crossed the color line…

  • The Invisible Line: Three American families and the secret journey from black to white [Live Interview with Daniel J. Sharfstein] Minnesota Public Radio News Midmorning Broadcast: 2011-03-15 15:06Z (10:06 CDT, 11:06 EDT, 08:06 PDT) Kerri Miller, Host Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University For much of American history, racial identity has been defined…

  • The House Behind the Cedars Houghton, Mifflin and Company 1900 294 pages Electronic Edition University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 1997 Text scanned (OCR) by Jamie Vacca Text encoded by Natalia Smith and Don Sechler Filesize: ca. 600KB Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932)    The electronic edition is a part of the UNC-CH database “A Digitized…

  • Interview with Daniel J. Sharfstein, author of “The Invisible Line” The Christian Science Monitor 2011-02-23 Stacie Williams, Monitor Contributor In “The Invisible Line,” law professor Daniel J. Sharfstein uses the stories of three families to explore the fluid nature of racial identity in America. Race has never been an easy concept in this country; the…

  • Invisible Darkness: Jean Toomer and Nella Larsen University of Iowa Press 1993 255 pages, 10 photos Paper 0-87745-437-X, 978-0-87745-437-3 Charles R. Larson, Professor of Literature American University Invisible Darkness offers a striking interpretation of the tortured lives of the two major novelists of the Harlem Renaissance: Jean Toomer, author of Cane (1923), and Nella Larsen,…

  • Jean Toomer’s Conflicted Racial Identity [Reader Responses] The Chronicle of Higher Education 2011-03-06 Charles R. Larson, Professor of Literature American University, Washington, D. C. To the Editor: Congratulations to Rudolph P. Byrd and Henry Louis Gates Jr. for concluding that Jean Toomer was a Negro who decided to pass for white—the same conclusion I made…