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More than a century after its initial publication in 1912, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson continues to generate commentary. The narrator’s racial passing, along with the novel’s twist of genre through “passing” for an autobiography, has led much scholarship to address the issues of race and narrative.
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Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction by Diana Rebekkah Paulin (review) [Ings] African American Review Volume 47, Number 1, Spring 2014 Katharine Nicholson Ings, Associate Professor of English Manchester College, North Manchester, Indiana Diana Rebekkah Paulin. Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2012. 315…
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Journey into Speech-A Writer between Two Worlds: An Interview with Michelle Cliff African American Review Volume 28, Number 2, Black Women’s Culture Issue (Summer, 1994) pages 273-281 DOI: 10.2307/3041999 Opal Palmer Adisa, Professor of Creative Writing California College of the Arts Among the subjects Jamaican born writer Michelle Cliff explores in her writings are ancestry,…
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Beautiful White Girlhood?: Daisy Buchanan in Nella Larsen’s Passing African American Review Volume 47, Number 1, Spring 2014 pages 37-49 Sinéad Moynihan, Lecturer in English University of Exeter This article expands recent scholarship on race in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and intertextuality in Nella Larsen’s Passing by arguing that the latter is a…
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A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life by Allyson Hobbs (review) [Cutter] African American Review Volume 48, Number 3, Fall 2015 pages 381-383 Martha J. Cutter, Professor of English and Africana Studies University of Connecticut Hobbs, Allyson, A Chosen Exile: History of Racial Passing in American Life (Cambridge: Harvard University Press,…
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Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial by Ralina L. Joseph (review) [Ardizzone] African American Review Volume 46, Number 4, Winter 2013 pages 787-790 DOI: 10.1353/afa.2013.0105 Heidi Ardizzone, Assistant Professor of American Studies Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri Joseph, Ralina L., Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the…
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Reading Race in Nella Larsen’s Passing and the Rhinelander Case African American Review Voluume 46, Numbers 2-3, Summer/Fall 2013 pages 345-361 DOI: 10.1353/afa.2013.0076 Rebecca Nisetich, Assistant Director, Honors Program University of Southern Maine Toward the end of Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929), the protagonist Irene Redfield imagines how her friend Clare Kendry’s racist husband might react…
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Toni Morrison and the Burden of the Passing Narrative African American Review Volume 35, Number 2 (Summer, 2001) pages 205-217 Juda Bennett, Associate Professor of English The College of New Jersey Passing for white, a phenomenon that once captivated writers as diverse as Charles Chesnutt, Sinclair Lewis, Nella Larsen, and Mark Twain, no longer seems…
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Individualism, Success, and American Identity in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man African American Review Volume 30, Number 3 (Autumn, 1996) pages 403-419 Kathleen Pfeiffer, Professor of English Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan The title character in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man embodies the paradox of race and color because he is…
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Neither Fish, Flesh, nor Fowl: Race and Region in the Writings of Charles W. Chesnutt African American Review Volume 34, Number 3 (Autumn, 2000) pages 461-473 Anne Fleischmann The Supreme Court’s decision in The 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case is notorious for having sewn racial segregation into the fabric of American society. One of the…