Tag: Ralph Ellison

  • he key question posed herein is: What forms of privilege enable a reader to relinquish her attachment to paranoia, suspicion, and vigilance; to opt for openness rather than guardedness, submission rather than aggression (21)? Narratives of racial passing provide one answer to that question.

  • Do Not Pass Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2010-02-16 Touré This may come as a shock to you, especially if you look at whiteness as a boon and blackness as a burden, but I have never once wished to be white. If a fairy godfather came to me and said I could switch…

  • Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity Baylor University Press February 2016 190 pages 9in x 6in Hardback ISBN: 9781602587342 Sheldon George, Professor of English Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts African American identity is racialized. And this racialized identity has animated and shaped political resistance to racism. Hidden, though, are the psychological…

  • English 4640G: Construction of Racial Identity in Post Civil War America Huron University College at Western University London, Ontario, Canada Winter 2013 Neil Brooks, Associate Professor, English Course Description: Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination argues that the canonical American literary tradition can only be understood after recognizing the presence…

  • By Custom and By Law: Black Folklore and Racial Representation at the Birth of Jim Crow University of Maryland, College Park 2006 222 pages Shirley C. Moody Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, College Park in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of…

  • Black and White Both Cast Shadows: Unconventional Permutations of Racial Passing in African American and American Literature University of Arizona 2012 220 pages Derek Adams A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY In the Graduate College THE UNIVERSITY…

  • Reflections: An Anthology of African-American Philosophy, 1st Edition Cengage Learning 2000 464 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 0534573932  ISBN-13: 9780534573935 Edited by: James Montmarquet, Professor of Philosophy Tennessee State University William Hardy, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion Tennessee State University This anthology provides the instructor with a sufficient quantity, breadth, and diversity of materials to be…

  • Passing, segregation, and assimilation: How Nella Larsen changed the “Passing” novel University of Texas, El Paso December 2010 105 pages Publication Number: AAT 1483825 ISBN: 9781124390468 Vivian Maguire A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at El Paso in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree…

  • Controversy: Race and Sexuality on the American Frontier (FRO 100.023) Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland Angelo Robinson, Associate Professor of English “Am I Black or White? Am I Straight or Gay? CONTROVERSY?”  Since its founding, and long before recording artist Prince penned these lyrics in the 1980s, America has been a space and a place demanding…

  • Douglass, Ellison and Marley lived on racial frontiers. Their interactions with mixed audiences made them key figures in an interracial consciousness and culture, integrative ancestors who can be claimed by more than one group.