Category: Passing

  • The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt Louisiana State University Press March 1999 312 pages Trim: 6 x 9 Paper ISBN-13: 9780807124529 William L. Andrews, E. Maynard Adams Professor of English University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The career of any black writer in nineteenth-century American was fraught with difficulties, and William Andrews undertakes to…

  • ‘Our sea of islands’: migration and métissage in contemporary Polynesian writing International Journal of Francophone Studies Volume 11, Issue 4 (December 2008) pages 503-522 DOI: 10.1386/ijfs.11.4.503_1 Michelle Keown, Senior Lecturer of English Literature University of Edinburgh This article explores metaphors of oceanic migration in contemporary Polynesian writing, investigating the notion of a regional ‘Oceanic’ identity…

  • Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption Vintage an imprint of Random House, Inc. Academic Resources 2003 688 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-375-70264-8 (0-375-70264-4) Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law Harvard Law School From the author of Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word and Race, Crime, and the Law—a tour de force…

  • Mixed-Race Identity Politics in Nella Larsen and Winnifred Eaton (Onoto Watanna) Ohio University English (Arts and Sciences) Department November 2001 217 pages Advisor: David Dean McWilliams Sachi Nakachi A dissertation presented to the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences of Ohio University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of…

  • Passing W. W. Norton & Company September 2007 584 pages 5.2 × 8.4 in Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-97916-9 Nella Larsen Edited by Carla Kaplan, Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature Northeastern University Nella Larsen is a central figure in African American, Modernist, and women’s literature. Larsen’s status as a Harlem Renaissance woman writer was rivaled by…

  • Mixed Race America and the Law: A Reader New York Univeristy Press 2003-02-01 512 pages ISBN: 9780814742570 Edited by: Kevin R. Johnson, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicano/a Studies University of California Davis For the first time in United States history, the Year 2000 census allowed people to check more than one box to identify…

  • Of all the images to arise from the Harlem Renaissance, the most thought-provoking were those of the mulatta. For some writers, artists, and filmmakers, these images provided an alternative to the stereotypes of black womanhood and a challenge to the color line. For others, they represented key aspects of modernity and race coding central to…

  • The (Mono-) Racial Contract: Mixed-Race Implications Canadian Political Science Association 79th Annual Conference 2007-05-30 through 2007-06-01 Paper Dated: 2007-05-17 Debra Thompson, Assistant Professor of Political Science Ohio University Nearly a decade ago, Charles Mills brought ‘race’ into mainstream political theory through his theory of the Racial Contract; namely, that all social contracts are underwritten by the…