Tag: James Weldon Johnson

  • Crimes of passing: The criminalization of blackness and miscegenation in United States passing narratives University of California, Los Angeles 2005 158 pages Publication Number: AAT 3175169 ISBN: 9780542133046 Susan Elaine Bausch A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Literature Between approximately 1880 and 1925, large…

  • Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction University of Minnesota Press July 2012 336 pages 9 b&w photos 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-7099-4 cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-7098-7 Diana Rebekkah Paulin, Associate Professor of English and American Studies Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut Imperfect Unions examines the vital role that nineteenth- and twentieth-century…

  • Race and Ethnicity in “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man” and “The Rise of David Levinsky”: The Performative Difference MELUS Volume 29, Numbers 3/4, (Autumn-Winter, 2004), Pedagody, Canon, Context: Toward a Redefinition of Ethnic American Literary Studies pages 307-321 Catherine Rottenberg, Assistant Professor Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics and the Gender Studies Program Ben-Gurion…

  • Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel University of Illinois Press 2001 208 pages 6 x 9 in. Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07248-2 M. Giulia Fabi, Associate professor of American literature University of Ferrara, Italy Revealing the role of light-skinned black characters passing for white in African American literature A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2003…

  • This remarkable novel documents the life of an American of mixed ethnicity who moves freely in society — from the rural South to the urban North and eventually, Europe.

  • “This damned business of colour”: Passing in African American novels and memoirs Lehigh University 2005-04-28 230 pages Publication Number: AAT 3167071 ISBN: 9780542026218 Irina C. Negrea Presented to the Graduate and Research Committee of Lehigh University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English The topic of this dissertation is an analysis…

  • The Language Trap: U.S. Passing Fiction and its Paradox University of Kansas 2009 181 pages Masami Sugimori, Instructor of English University of South Alabama Submitted to the graduate degree program in English and the Graduate Faculty of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Through…

  • Narrative Order, Racial Hierarchy, and “White” Discourse in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and Along This Way MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Volume 36, Number 3, Fall 2011 page 37-62 DOI: 10.1353/mel.2011.0041 Masami Sugimori, Instructor of English University of South Alabama African Americans became increasingly mobile during the early twentieth…

  • University of North Florida Presents James Weldon Johnson Symposium University of North Florida Press Release 2012-03-29 Joanna Norris, Associate Director of Public Relations he University of North Florida presents the James Weldon Johnson Symposium from noon to 4 p.m. Thursday, April 5, and from noon to 5 p.m. Friday, April 6, in the UNF Student…

  • Crossing the Color Line: Narratives of Passing in American Literature St. Mary’s College of Maryland English 400.01 Fall 2008 Christine Wooley, Assistant Professor of English       This course will consider representations of passing (and thus also miscegenation) in nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. culture. While passing has often been depicted-and dismissed-as an act of racial betrayal,…