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Crossing the Line
Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture
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2000
About this book
Examines constructions of racial identity through the exploration of passing narratives including Black Like Me and forties jazz musician Mezz Mezzrow’s memoir Really the Blues.
Author / Editor information
Gayle Wald is Assistant Professor of English at George Washington University.
Reviews
“Crossing the Line offers a superbly well-developed analysis of narratives of racial passing and a strategy for engaging such narratives. It will set the standard for subsequent treatments of racial passing.”—Dana Nelson, author of National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men
“Deeply engaging, well-researched, and effective, Crossing the Line is a fine multidisciplinary study not only of passing narratives but of the social, political, and economic struggles that they negotiate in racial terms.”— Priscilla Wald, author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Race, Passing, and Cultural Representation
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Chapter 1. Home Again: Racial Negotiations in Modernist African American Passing Narratives
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Chapter 2. Mezz Mezzrow and the Voluntary Negro Blues
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Chapter 3. Boundaries Lost and Found: Racial Passing and Cinematic Representation, circa 1949
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Chapter 4. ‘‘I’m Through with Passing’’: Postpassing Narratives in Black Popular Literary Culture
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Chapter 5. ‘‘A Most Disagreeable Mirror’’: Reflections on White Identity in Black Like Me
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Epilogue: Passing, ‘‘Color Blindness,’’ and Contemporary Discourses of Race and Identity
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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July 24, 2000
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9780822380924
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272
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12 b&w photographs
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