{"id":46899,"date":"2016-05-09T15:16:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T15:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46899"},"modified":"2016-05-09T21:54:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T21:54:25","slug":"dying-to-be-black-white-to-black-racial-passing-in-chesnutts-mars-jeemss-nightmare-griffins-black-like-me-and-van-peebless-watermelon-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46899","title":{"rendered":"Dying to Be Black: White-to-Black Racial Passing in Chesnutt’s \u201cMars Jeems’s Nightmare,\u201d Griffin’s Black Like Me, and Van Peebles’s Watermelon Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dying to Be Black: White-to-Black Racial Passing in Chesnutt’s \u201cMars Jeems’s Nightmare,\u201d Griffin’s <\/strong><\/em>Black Like Me<\/strong>, and Van Peebles’s <\/strong><\/em>Watermelon Man<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Prospects<\/a>
\nVolume 28 \/ October 2004<\/a>
\npages 519-542
\nDOI: 10.1017\/S0361233300001599<\/a><\/p>\n

Baz Dreisinger<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of English
\nJohn Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York<\/em><\/p>\n

Is racial passing<\/a> pass\u00e9? Not according to contemporary book sales. The theme remains central to at least three recent best sellers: Danzy Senna’s<\/a> Caucasia<\/em><\/a>, Colson Whitehead’s<\/a> The Intuitionist<\/em><\/a>, and Philip Roth’s<\/a> The Human Stain<\/em><\/a>. Roth’s novel made it to the big screen<\/a> this fall, just as Devil in a Blues Dress<\/em><\/a>, the adaptation of Walter Mosley’s novel<\/a> starring Denzel Washington<\/a>, did in 1995. Renewed academic attention is being paid, of late, to \u201cclassic\u201d passing narratives; once-ignored ones, including Charles Chesnutt’s<\/a> The House Behind the Cedars<\/em><\/a>, are being revived; and still others being reread in the context of passing.<\/p>\n

Read or purchase the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dying to Be Black: White-to-Black Racial Passing in Chesnutt’s \u201cMars Jeems’s Nightmare,\u201d Griffin’s Black Like Me, and Van Peebles’s Watermelon Man Prospects Volume 28 \/ October 2004 pages 519-542 DOI: 10.1017\/S0361233300001599 Baz Dreisinger, Associate Professor of English John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York Is racial passing pass\u00e9? Not according to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8,6462,20],"tags":[2710,333,898,897,1308,23740,23741],"class_list":["post-46899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-baz-dreisinger","tag-charles-chesnutt","tag-charles-w-chesnutt","tag-charles-waddell-chesnutt","tag-john-howard-griffin","tag-melvin-van-peebles","tag-prospects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46899","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=46899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46904,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46899\/revisions\/46904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}