{"id":14390,"date":"2011-06-24T05:20:54","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T05:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=14390"},"modified":"2011-06-25T20:03:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T20:03:52","slug":"marginal-man-and-hard-boiled-detective-racial-passing-in-robert-skinners-wesley-farrell-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=14390","title":{"rendered":"Marginal Man and Hard-Boiled Detective: Racial Passing in Robert Skinner&#8217;s Wesley Farrell Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.3172\/CLU.26.3.56\" target=\"_blank\">Marginal Man and Hard-Boiled Detective: Racial Passing in Robert Skinner&#8217;s Wesley Farrell Series<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mcfarland.metapress.com\/app\/home\/journal.asp?referrer=backto&amp;backto=linkingpublicationresults,1:119917,1;&amp;absoluteposition=7#A7\" target=\"_blank\">Clues: A Journal of Detection<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mcfarland.metapress.com\/app\/home\/issue.asp?referrer=backto&amp;backto=journal,7,21;linkingpublicationresults,1:119917,1;&amp;absoluteposition=5#A5\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 26, Number 3<\/a> (Spring 2008)<br \/>\npages 56-69<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.3172\/CLU.26.3.56\" target=\"_blank\">10.3172\/CLU.26.3.56<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/humanities.exeter.ac.uk\/english\/staff\/moynihan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sin\u00e9ad Moynihan<\/a><\/strong>, Lecturer in English<br \/>\n<em>University of Exeter<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The author argues that tropes of detection and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">racial passing<\/a> are mutually compatible in Robert Skinner&#8217;s six <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Orleans\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans<\/a>-set mysteries. Set in the 1930s, they feature Wesley Farrell, a businessman-turned-sleuth who is passing as white. A passing plot coupled with a murder mystery foreground the issues of detection, evidence and clues, guilt, confession, exposure, and the often gross disparity between law and justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marginal Man and Hard-Boiled Detective: Racial Passing in Robert Skinner&#8217;s Wesley Farrell Series Clues: A Journal of Detection Volume 26, Number 3 (Spring 2008) pages 56-69 DOI: 10.3172\/CLU.26.3.56 Sin\u00e9ad Moynihan, Lecturer in English University of Exeter The author argues that tropes of detection and racial passing are mutually compatible in Robert Skinner&#8217;s six New Orleans-set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8,6462],"tags":[6648,6647,6642],"class_list":["post-14390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","tag-clues-a-journal-of-detection","tag-robert-skinner","tag-sinead-moynihan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14390","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=14390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}