{"id":60231,"date":"2020-10-11T02:38:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T02:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60231"},"modified":"2022-03-08T23:59:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T23:59:00","slug":"that-middle-world-race-performance-and-the-politics-of-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60231","title":{"rendered":"That Middle World: Race, Performance, and the Politics of Passing"},"content":{"rendered":"

That Middle World: Race, Performance, and the Politics of Passing<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

University of North Carolina Press<\/a>
\nOctober 2020
\n242 pages
\n6.125 x 9.25, 10 halftones, 1 fig
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-5957-2
\nHardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-5956-5
\neBook ISBN: 978-1-4696-5958-9<\/p>\n

Julia S. Charles<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of English
\nAuburn University, Auburn, Alabama<\/em><\/p>\n

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In this study of racial passing<\/a> literature, Julia S. Charles highlights how mixed-race subjects invent cultural spaces for themselves\u2014a place she terms that middle world\u2014and how they, through various performance strategies, make meaning in the interstices between the Black and white worlds. Focusing on the construction and performance of racial identity in works by writers from the antebellum period through Reconstruction<\/a>, Charles creates a new discourse around racial passing to analyze mixed-race characters\u2019 social objectives when crossing into other racialized spaces. To illustrate how this middle world and its attendant performativity still resonates in the present day, Charles connects contemporary figures, television, and film\u2014including Rachel Dolezal and her Black-passing controversy, the FX show Atlanta<\/a><\/em>, and the musical Show Boat<\/em><\/a>\u2014to a range of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary texts. Charles\u2019s work offers a nuanced approach to African American passing literature and examines how mixed-race performers articulated their sense of selfhood and communal belonging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That Middle World: Race, Performance, and the Politics of Passing University of North Carolina Press October 2020 242 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 10 halftones, 1 fig Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-5957-2 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-5956-5 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4696-5958-9 Julia S. Charles, Assistant Professor of English Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama In this study of racial passing literature, Julia S. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8413,1196,8,17,6462,20],"tags":[333,898,897,1307,29636,87,20241,667],"class_list":["post-60231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-communications","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-charles-chesnutt","tag-charles-w-chesnutt","tag-charles-waddell-chesnutt","tag-james-weldon-johnson","tag-julia-s-charles","tag-nella-larsen","tag-rachel-dolezal","tag-university-of-north-carolina-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60231","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=60231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63336,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60231\/revisions\/63336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}