Tag: Vera Caspary

  • The White Girl Grosset & Dunlap 1929 305 pages Vera Caspary An African-American woman who moves north to Chicago where she passes as white. Read the entire book here.

  • “These narratives of racial passing have risen from the dead” Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey May 2015 275 pages DOI: 10.7282/T38G8NJG Donavan L. Ramon Ph.D. Dissertation Instead of concurring with most critics that racial passing literature reached its apex during the Harlem Renaissance, this project highlights its persistence, as evidenced in the texts…