{"id":55884,"date":"2018-03-14T16:57:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T16:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55884"},"modified":"2018-03-14T20:14:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T20:14:42","slug":"neo-passing-performing-identity-after-jim-crow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55884","title":{"rendered":"Neo-Passing: Performing Identity after Jim Crow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neo-Passing: Performing Identity after Jim Crow<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

University of Illinois Press<\/a>
\nMarch 2018
\n296 pages
\n6 x 9 in.
\n11 black & white photographs
\nCloth ISBN: 978-0-252-04158-7
\nPaper ISBN: 978-0-252-08323-5
\nEbook ISBN: 978-0-252-05024-4<\/p>\n

Edited by:<\/p>\n

Mollie Godfrey<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of English
\nJames Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia<\/em><\/p>\n

Vershawn Ashanti Young<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Drama and Speech Communication
\nUniversity of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Crossing old boundaries to create new identities<\/em><\/p>\n

African Americans once passed as whites<\/a> to escape the pains of racism. Today\u2019s neo-passing has pushed the old idea of passing in extraordinary new directions. A white author uses an Asian pen name; heterosexuals live \u201cout\u201d as gay; and, irony of ironies, whites try to pass as black.<\/p>\n

Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young present essays that explore practices, performances, and texts of neo-passing in our supposedly postracial moment. The authors move from the postracial imagery of Angry Black White Boy<\/em><\/a> and the issues of sexual orientation and race in ZZ Packer\u2019s<\/a> short fiction to the politics of Dave Chappelle\u2019s<\/a> skits as a black President George W. Bush<\/a>. Together, the works reveal that the questions raised by neo-passing\u2014questions about performing and contesting identity in relation to social norms\u2014remain as relevant today as in the past.<\/p>\n

Gale Wald<\/a> offers a foreword and Michele Elam<\/a> an afterword.<\/p>\n

Contributors: Derek Adams, Christopher M. Brown, Martha J. Cutter, Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Alisha Gaines, Jennifer Glaser, Allyson Hobbs, Brandon J. Manning, Loran Marsan, Lara Narcisi, Eden Osucha, and Deborah Elizabeth Whaley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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