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Passing Interest: Racial Passing in US Novels, Memoirs, Television, and Film, 1990\u20132010<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

State University of New York Press<\/a>
\nJuly 2014
\n352 pages
\nHardcover ISBN13: 978-1-4384-5227-2
\nElectronic ISBN13: 978-1-4384-5229-6<\/p>\n

Edited by:<\/p>\n

Julie Cary Nerad<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of American Literature
\nMorgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland
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Explores how the trope of racial passing continues to serve as a touchstone for gauging public beliefs and anxieties about race in this multiracial era.<\/em><\/p>\n

The first volume to focus on the trope<\/a> of racial passing<\/a> in novels, memoirs, television, and films published or produced between 1990 and 2010, Passing Interest<\/em> takes the scholarly conversation on passing into the twenty-first century. With contributors working in the fields of African American studies, American studies, cultural studies, film studies, literature, and media studies, this book offers a rich, interdisciplinary survey of critical approaches to a broad range of contemporary passing texts. Contributors frame recent passing texts with a wide array of cultural discourses, including immigration law, the Post-Soul Aesthetic, contemporary political satire, affirmative action, the paradoxes of \u201ccolorblindness,\u201d and the rhetoric of \u201cpost-racialism.\u201d Many explore whether \u201cone drop\u201d of blood<\/a> still governs our sense of racial identity, or to what extent contemporary American culture allows for the racially indeterminate individual. Some essays open the scholarly conversation to focus on \u201cethnic\u201d passers\u2014individuals who complicate the traditional black-white binary\u2014while others explore the slippage between traditional racial passing and related forms of racial performance, including blackface minstrelsy and racial masquerade.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n