{"id":34283,"date":"2013-10-13T02:34:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T02:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34283"},"modified":"2013-10-13T02:34:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T02:34:47","slug":"racial-passing-in-james-weldon-johnson%e2%80%99s-the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man-and-philip-roth%e2%80%99s-the-human-stain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34283","title":{"rendered":"Racial Passing in James Weldon Johnson\u2019s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and Philip Roth\u2019s The Human Stain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Racial Passing in James Weldon Johnson\u2019s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and Philip Roth\u2019s The Human Stain<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A Vertentes<\/a>
\nUniversidade Federal de S\u00e3o Jo\u00e3o del Rei
\nVolume 19, Number 2<\/a>
\n13 pages<\/p>\n

Maria Luiza Cardoso de Aguiar<\/a><\/strong>
\nUniversidade Federal de Minas Gerais<\/em><\/p>\n

The so-called racial passing is defined, mainly, as a phenomenon through which black people who are light-skinned pass for whites<\/a>, in order to achieve social and economic advantages which are usually more easily available to white people. Based on problematizations around the concepts of passing, the present article intends to analyze, comparatively, two important works from the 20th century: The Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man<\/a><\/em> (1912\/1989), written by James Weldon Johnson<\/a>, and The Human Stain<\/a><\/em> (2000), written by Philip Roth<\/a>. The analysis of these works aims at investigating how the issue of passing is portrayed in each of the novels, in order to highlight the fact that, although the protagonists at stake share many similarities, such as the desire to free themselves from the decisiveness of pre-established categories like race, the experience of passing is heterogeneous and it is differently constructed and operated in each of the novels.<\/p>\n

O chamado passing racial trata, principalmente, do fen\u00f4meno no qual negros de pele mais clara e de tra\u00e7os mesti\u00e7os se passam por pessoas brancas, a fim de, mais comumente, conseguirem vantagens sociais e econ\u00f4micas, frequentemente mais acess\u00edveis aos brancos do que aos negros. A partir de problematiza\u00e7\u00f5es em torno dos conceitos de passing, o presente trabalho visa a analisar comparativamente duas importantes obras da literatura norte-americana do s\u00e9culo XX: The autobiography of an ex-colored man<\/em> (1912\/1989), de James Weldon Johnson, e The human stain <\/em>(2000), de Philip Roth. Pretende-se investigar como a quest\u00e3o do passing \u00e9 retratada em cada uma das obras, a fim de se destacar que, apesar de os protagonistas em quest\u00e3o apresentarem muitas similaridades e desejarem que categorias pr\u00e9-estabelecidas n\u00e3o sejam decisivas em suas trajet\u00f3rias, a experi\u00eancia do passing \u00e9 heterog\u00eanea, sendo constru\u00edda e operada diferentemente em cada um dos romances.<\/p>\n

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Racial Passing in James Weldon Johnson\u2019s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and Philip Roth\u2019s The Human Stain A Vertentes Universidade Federal de S\u00e3o Jo\u00e3o del Rei Volume 19, Number 2 13 pages Maria Luiza Cardoso de Aguiar Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais The so-called racial passing is defined, mainly, as a phenomenon through which […]<\/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":[16114,1307,16112,8110,16113],"class_list":["post-34283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","tag-a-vertentes","tag-james-weldon-johnson","tag-maria-luiza-cardoso-de-aguiar","tag-philip-roth","tag-universidade-federal-de-sao-joao-del-rei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34283","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=34283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}