Tag: Willard Savoy

  • 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.

  • A Home Elsewhere: Reading African American Classics in the Age of Obama Harvard University Press May 2010 192 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches no illustrations Hardcover ISBN: 9780674050969 Robert B. Stepto, Professor of English, African American Studies, and American Studies Yale University In this series of interlocking essays, which had their start as lectures inspired…

  • “Alien Land” is the passionate and haunting story of a light-skinned black man who can pass as white in mid-twentieth-century America.