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  • ‘Passing’ Across The Color Line In The Jazz Age

    ‘Passing’ Across The Color Line In The Jazz Age National Public Radio All Things Considered: You Must Read This 2010-04-07 Heidi W. Durrow Heidi W. Durrow is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and Yale Law School. Her debut novel is “The Girl Who Fell From The Sky.” There are novels that…

  • Near Black: White-to-Black Passing in American Culture

    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…

  • The Tragic Black Buck: Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination

    The Tragic Black Buck: Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination Peter Lang Publishing Group 2004 198 pages ISBN: 978-0-8204-6206-6 Carlyle Van Thompson, Acting Dean, School of Liberal Arts and Education Medgar Evers College, the City University of New York The Tragic Black Buck examines the phenomenon, often paradoxical, of black males passing for white…

  • The Strangeness of Passing: Commentary on Paper by Christopher Bonovitz

    The Strangeness of Passing: Commentary on Paper by Christopher Bonovitz Psychoanalytic Dialogues Volume 19, Issue 4 (July 2009) pages 442-449 DOI: 10.1080/10481880903088377 Annabella Bushra The Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Christopher Bonovitz gives us a rich landscape of the theoretical, historical, and relational aspects of his work with his mixed-race patient.…

  • passing

    In the racial politics of the United States, racial passing refers to a person classified by society as a member of one racial group (most commonly Caucasian / Afro-American heritage) choosing to identify with a different group (usually white) by appearance. The term was used especially in the US to describe a person of mixed-race…

  • Passing as Mixed Race

    Passing as Mixed Race Open Salon 2010-03-03 Marcia Dawkins, Assistant Professor of Human Communication California State University, Fullerton Alexandre Dumas has always been one of my favorite writers. Works like The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo and Georges took me on countless adventures in worlds and times much different from my own. But…

  • Passing for White: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820–1920

    The remarkable saga of a mixed-race family in nineteenth-century America

  • Race and the “One Drop Rule” in the Post-Reconstruction South

    Race and the “One Drop Rule” in the Post-Reconstruction South Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2009-03-17 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Many people, perhaps most, think of “race” as an objective reality. Historically, however, racial categorization has been unstable, contradictory, and arbitrary. Consider the term “passing.” Most of…

  • Passing in the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt

    An exploration of a great American writer’s abiding concern with the color line

  • History 270: Topics In American History – Mixed Race Identity in American Culture

    History 270: Topics In American History – Mixed Race Identity in American Culture Spring 2010 Greg Carter, Assistant Professor of History University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Through most of the United States’ history, laws have been in place to prevent interracial intimacy and the production of mixed-race offspring, and the Tragic Mulatto figure, victim of confusion…