{"id":6246,"date":"2010-03-23T15:26:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T15:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6246"},"modified":"2013-09-28T17:30:44","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T17:30:44","slug":"the-tragic-black-buck-racial-masquerading-in-the-american-literary-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6246","title":{"rendered":"The Tragic Black Buck: Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tragic Black Buck: Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Peter Lang Publishing Group<\/a>
\n2004
\n198 pages
\nISBN: 978-0-8204-6206-6<\/p>\n

Carlyle Van Thompson<\/strong>, Acting Dean, School of Liberal Arts and Education
\nMedgar Evers College, the City University of New York<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Tragic Black Buck<\/em> examines the phenomenon, often paradoxical, of black males passing for white in American literature. Focusing on the first third of the twentieth century, this book argues that black individuals successfully assuming a white identity represent a paradox, in that passing for white exemplifies a challenge to the hegemonic<\/a> philosophy of biological white supremacy, while denying blackness. Issues of race, gender, skin color, class, and law are examined in the literature of passing, involving the historical, theoretical, and literary tropes of miscegenation, mimicry, and masquerade. The narratives examined in The Tragic Black Buck<\/em> are Charles Waddell Chesnutt<\/a>‘s The House Behind the Cedars<\/a><\/em>, James Weldon Johnson<\/a>‘s The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man<\/a><\/em>, F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/a>‘s The Great Gatsby<\/a><\/em>, and William Faulkner<\/a>‘s Light in August<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Tragic Black Buck: Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination Peter Lang Publishing Group 2004 198 pages ISBN: 978-0-8204-6206-6 Carlyle Van Thompson, Acting Dean, School of Liberal Arts and Education Medgar Evers College, the City University of New York The Tragic Black Buck examines the phenomenon, often paradoxical, of black males passing for white […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1196,8,17,6462,20],"tags":[2587,333,898,897,2588,1307,2585,490],"class_list":["post-6246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-carlyle-van-thompson","tag-charles-chesnutt","tag-charles-w-chesnutt","tag-charles-waddell-chesnutt","tag-f-scott-fitzgerald","tag-james-weldon-johnson","tag-peter-lang-publishing-group","tag-william-faulkner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6246","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=6246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}