{"id":62783,"date":"2022-04-14T22:12:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62783"},"modified":"2022-04-14T22:13:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T22:13:13","slug":"romance-and-race-coloring-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62783","title":{"rendered":"Romance and Race: Coloring the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/acmrspress.com\/9780866986946\/romance-and-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Romance and Race: Coloring the Past<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/acmrspress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ACMRS Press<\/a><br \/>\nApril 2022<br \/>\n160 pages<br \/>\n6&#8243; x 9&#8243;<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 9780866986946<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9780866986595<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margo_Hendricks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Margo Hendricks<\/strong><\/a>, Professor Emerita<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Santa Cruz<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/acmrspress.com\/9780866986946\/romance-and-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arizona-university-us.imgix.net\/covers\/9780866986946.jpg?auto=format&amp;w=298&amp;dpr=3&amp;q=20\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>This study brings race and the literary tradition of romance into dialogue.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Romance and Race: Coloring the Past<\/em> explores the literary and cultural genealogy of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Discrimination_based_on_skin_color\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">colorism<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">white passing<\/a>, and white presenting in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Romance_novel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">romance genre<\/a>. The scope of the study ranges from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heliodorus_of_Emesa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heliodorus\u2019<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aethiopica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Aithiopika<\/em><\/a> to the short novels of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aphra_Behn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aphra Behn<\/a>, to the modern romance novel <em>Forbidden<\/em> by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beverly_Jenkins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beverly Jenkins<\/a>. This analysis engages with the troublesome racecraft of \u201cpassing\u201d and the instability of racial identity and its formation from the premodern to the present. The study also looks at the significance of white settler colonialism to early modern romance narratives. A bridge between studies of early modern romance and scholarship on twenty-first-century romance novels, this book is well-suited for those interested in the romance genre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This study brings race and the literary tradition of romance into dialogue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1196,8,17,6462],"tags":[32775,11545,32778,240,474,32777,32776],"class_list":["post-62783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-passing-2","tag-acmrs-press","tag-aphra-behn","tag-beverly-jenkins","tag-colorism","tag-heliodorus","tag-heliodorus-of-emesa","tag-margo-hendricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62783","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=62783"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63670,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62783\/revisions\/63670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}