{"id":63352,"date":"2022-03-09T19:34:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T19:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63352"},"modified":"2022-03-10T17:18:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T17:18:26","slug":"charles-calls-for-a-rejection-of-previous-scholarly-treatments-of-passing-that-foreground-experiences-of-loss-among-those-who-pass-and-instead-argues-for-a-focus-on-the-opportunities-that-performing-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63352","title":{"rendered":"Charles calls for a rejection of previous scholarly treatments of passing that foreground experiences of loss among those who pass and instead argues for a focus on the opportunities that performing race offered to certain mixed-race African American citizens."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The past decade has seen a tremendous growth in scholarly inquiry around the subject of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">racial passing<\/a>. The context of the current historical moment coupled with viral discussions of cultural appropriation and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cultural_appropriation#Blackfishing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blackfishing<\/a>\u201d brings a sense of urgency to understanding the long history of passing and its function in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S.<\/a> context. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/juliascharles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Julia S. Charles\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60231\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>That Middle World: Race, Performance, and the Politics of Passing<\/em><\/a> offers a perspective on this phenomenon that places performance at the heart of the racial passing experience. Charles calls for a rejection of previous scholarly treatments of passing that foreground experiences of loss among those who pass and instead argues for a focus on the opportunities that performing race offered to certain mixed-race African American citizens. Charles presents a book of theory and philosophy on racial passing meant to inform the ways scholars of African American literature and media studies can make sense of mixed-race and passing characters throughout nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tyler Sperrazza, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201c<em>That Middle World: Race, Performance, and the Politics of Passing<\/em> by Julia S. Charles (review)<\/a>,\u201d <em>Journal of Southern History<\/em>, Volume 88, Number 1, February 2022, 164. <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/soh.2022.0019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/soh.2022.0019<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past decade has seen a tremendous growth in scholarly inquiry around the subject of racial passing. The context of the current historical moment coupled with viral discussions of cultural appropriation and \u201cblackfishing\u201d brings a sense of urgency to understanding the long history of passing and its function in the U.S. context. Julia S. Charles\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[780,29636,33196],"class_list":["post-63352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-journal-of-southern-history","tag-julia-s-charles","tag-tyler-sperrazza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63352","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=63352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63364,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63352\/revisions\/63364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}