{"id":19513,"date":"2012-01-03T22:58:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T22:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=19513"},"modified":"2012-01-03T22:58:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T22:58:35","slug":"crossing-the-color-line-narratives-of-passing-in-american-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=19513","title":{"rendered":"Crossing the Color Line: Narratives of Passing in American Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crossing the Color Line: Narratives of Passing in American Literature<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

St. Mary’s College of Maryland
\nEnglish 400.01
\nFall 2008<\/p>\n

Christine Wooley<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of English
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\nThis course will consider representations of passing<\/a> (and thus also miscegenation<\/a>) in nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. culture. While passing has often been depicted-and dismissed-as an act of racial betrayal, more recent criticism has suggested that we view these depictions of racial transgression and deception in more complicated ways. In this class, we will analyze various narratives centered around passing and miscegenation as sites through which we can better examine-and understand-the construction of racial identities in particular historical and political contexts. We will ask whether or not narratives about passing and miscegenation challenge the stability of racial categories. Likewise, we will pay close attention to how such narratives also engage issues of class, ethnicity, and gender. Syllabus may include works by authors such as Harriet Wilson<\/a>, William Wells Brown<\/a>, Lydia Maria Child<\/a>, Frances Harper<\/a>, William Dean Howells<\/a>, Pauline Hopkins<\/a>, Mark Twain<\/a>, Charles Chesnutt<\/a>, Kate Chopin<\/a>, James Weldon Johnson<\/a>, Nella Larsen<\/a>, George Schuyler<\/a>, Toni Morrison<\/a>, and Philip Roth<\/a>. In addition, this class will also draw on a selection of historical and legal documents, current critical works on race, and films such as The Jazz Singer<\/a><\/em> and Imitation of Life<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Crossing the Color Line: Narratives of Passing in American Literature St. Mary’s College of Maryland English 400.01 Fall 2008 Christine Wooley, Assistant Professor of English \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This course will consider representations of passing (and thus also miscegenation) in nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. culture. While passing has often been depicted-and dismissed-as an act of racial betrayal, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1564,1196,8,6462,10],"tags":[333,898,897,9043,91,834,944,1307,483,77,149,87,90,8110,9042,1240,668,482],"class_list":["post-19513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-uk","tag-charles-chesnutt","tag-charles-w-chesnutt","tag-charles-waddell-chesnutt","tag-christine-wooley","tag-frances-harper","tag-george-schuyler","tag-harriet-wilson","tag-james-weldon-johnson","tag-kate-chopin","tag-lydia-maria-child","tag-mark-twain","tag-nella-larsen","tag-pauline-hopkins","tag-philip-roth","tag-st-marys-college-of-maryland","tag-toni-morrison","tag-william-dean-howells","tag-william-wells-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19513","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=19513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}