{"id":11703,"date":"2011-01-24T22:53:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T22:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11703"},"modified":"2019-09-02T19:33:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T19:33:53","slug":"the-passing-figure-racial-confusion-in-modern-american-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11703","title":{"rendered":"The Passing Figure: Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/view\/title\/56416\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Passing Figure: Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterlang.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter Lang<br \/>\n<\/a>1998<br \/>\n142 pages<br \/>\nISBN: 978-0-8204-4265-5<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcnj.edu\/~english\/faculty\/bennett.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Juda Charles Bennett<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>The College of New Jersey<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/view\/title\/56416\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/cover\/covers\/9780820442655.jpg?width=300\" alt=\"Cover The Passing Figure\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How and when does literature most effectively uncover race to be a metaphor? The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passing<\/a> figure, a light-skinned African-American capable and willing to pass for white, provides the thematic focus to this provocative study. In exploring the social and cultural history of this distinctly American phenomenon, Bennett moves freely between literature, film, and music, arguing that the passing figure is crucial to our understanding of past and present conceptions of race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In exploring the social and cultural history of this distinctly American phenomenon, Bennett moves freely between literature, film, and music, arguing that the passing figure is crucial to our understanding of past and present conceptions of race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1196,8,17,6462,20],"tags":[5288,5289,5287,5290],"class_list":["post-11703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-juda-bennett","tag-juda-c-bennett","tag-juda-charles-bennett","tag-peter-lang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58814,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11703\/revisions\/58814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}