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  • The Veils of the Law: Race and Sexuality in Nella Larsen’s Passing

    The Veils of the Law: Race and Sexuality in Nella Larsen’s Passing College Literature Volume 22, Number 3 (October 1995) Race and Politics: The Experience of African-American Literature pages 50-67 Corinne E. Blackmer, Associate Professor of English Southern Connecticut State University When Nella Larsen, then a prominent young writer of the Harlem Renaissance, published her…

  • Racial Etiquette: Nella Larsen’s Passing and the Rhinelander Case

    Racial Etiquette: Nella Larsen’s Passing and the Rhinelander Case Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism Volume 5, Number 2, 2005 pages 1-29 E-ISSN: 1547-8424 Print ISSN: 1536-6936 DOI: 10.1353/mer.2005.0013 Miriam Thaggert, Associate Professor of English and African-American Studies University of Iowa In Passing Nella Larsen seems to suggest that identity is a hazy fiction one tells that…

  • Gothic Discourse Meets Hybridity in the United States [Book Review]

    Gothic Discourse Meets Hybridity in the United States [Book Review] H-net Reviews July 2003 Jeanne Cortiel Justin D. Edwards. Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2003. xxxiii + 145 pp., ISBN 978-0-87745-824-1. In the past decade, gothic studies have produced a number of new readers, research handbooks,…

  • Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic

    This groundbreaking study analyzes the development of American gothic literature alongside nineteenth-century discourses of passing and racial ambiguity.

  • Plessy as “Passing”: Judicial Responses to Ambiguously Raced Bodies in Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy as “Passing”: Judicial Responses to Ambiguously Raced Bodies in Plessy v. Ferguson Law & Society Review Volume 39, Issue 3 (September 2005) pages 563–600 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5893.2005.00234.x Mark Golub, Assistant Professor of Politics & International Relations Scripps College, Claremont, California The Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) is infamous for its doctrine of…

  • AAS 434-Constructions of Racial Ambiguity

    AAS 434-Constructions of Racial Ambiguity University of Nevada, Las Vegas Spring 2010 Rainier Spencer, Professor and Director, Afro-American Studies Program Interdisciplinary study of miscegenation, mulattos, and passing in the United States. Focuses on the Afro-American context, using historical, literary, and cinematic sources in order to grapple with and gain an understanding of the complexities of…

  • Race on Trial: Passing and the Van Houten Case in Boston

    Race on Trial: Passing and the Van Houten Case in Boston Paper presented at the annual meeting of the 94th Annual Convention Association for the Study of African American Life and History Hilton Cincinnati, Netherland Plaza Cincinnati, Ohio 2009-09-30 Zebulon V. Miletsky, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Stony Brook University, State University of New York…

  • City of Amalgamation: Race, Marriage, Class and Color in Boston, 1890-1930

    City of Amalgamation: Race, Marriage, Class and Color in Boston, 1890-1930 University of Massachusetts, Amherst September 2008 223 pages Paper AAI3337029 Zebulon V. Miletsky, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Stony Brook University, State University of New York Submitted to the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the Graduate School of the University of…

  • Review of Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor’s Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness (University of North Carolina Press, 2009)

    Review of Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor’s Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) History News Network December 2009 Renee Romano, Associate Professor of History Oberlin College “Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness” (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) On a fall…

  • Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral

    Written in 1929 at the height of the Harlem Renaissance by one of the movement’s most important and prolific authors, “Plum Bun” is the story of Angela Murray, a young black girl who discovers she can pass for white. After the death of her parents, Angela moves to New York to escape the racism she…