Passing Interest: Racial Passing in U.S. Novels, Memoirs, Television, and Film, 1990-2010
Explores how the trope of racial passing continues to
serve as a touchstone for gauging public beliefs and anxieties about race in
this multiracial era.The first volume to focus on the trope of
racial passing in novels, memoirs, television, and films published or produced
between 1990 and 2010, Passing Interest takes the scholarly
conversation on passing into the twenty-first century. With contributors working
in the fields of African American studies, American studies, cultural studies,
film studies, literature, and media studies, this book offers a rich,
interdisciplinary survey of critical approaches to a broad range of contemporary
passing texts. Contributors frame recent passing texts with a wide array of
cultural discourses, including immigration law, the Post-Soul Aesthetic,
contemporary political satire, affirmative action, the paradoxes of
Âcolorblindness, and the rhetoric of Âpost-racialism. Many explore whether
Âone drop of blood still governs our sense of racial identity, or to what
extent contemporary American culture allows for the racially indeterminate
individual. Some essays open the scholarly conversation to focus on ÂethnicÂ
passersÂindividuals who complicate the traditional black-white binaryÂwhile
others explore the slippage between traditional racial passing and related forms
of racial performance, including blackface minstrelsy and racial masquerade.
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