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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Race, Passing, and Cultural Representation 1
6. Chapter 1. Home Again: Racial Negotiations in Modernist African American Passing Narratives 25
7. Chapter 2. Mezz Mezzrow and the Voluntary Negro Blues 53
8. Chapter 3. Boundaries Lost and Found: Racial Passing and Cinematic Representation, circa 1949 82
9. Chapter 4. ‘‘I’m Through with Passing’’: Postpassing Narratives in Black Popular Literary Culture 116
10. Chapter 5. ‘‘A Most Disagreeable Mirror’’: Reflections on White Identity in Black Like Me 152
11. Epilogue: Passing, ‘‘Color Blindness,’’ and Contemporary Discourses of Race and Identity 182
12. Notes 191
13. Bibliography 227
14. Index 241