TY  - BOOK
AU  - Godfrey,Mollie
AU  - Young,Vershawn Ashanti
AU  - Wald,Gayle
AU  - Elam,Michele
TI  - Neo-passing: performing identity after Jim Crow 
SN  - 9780252041587 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
AV  - PS169.P35 N46 2018
U1  - 810.9/355 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - Passing (Identity) in literature
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Race identity
KW  - Race awareness
KW  - United States
KW  - African Americans in literature
KW  - Race in literature
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "This volume seeks to theorize and explore the concept of "neo-passing," or the proliferation of passing in the post-Jim Crow moment. Why--in our "color-blind" or "post-racial" moment--is passing still of such literary and cultural interest? To answer this question, chapters in this book focus on a range of passing practices, performances and texts that are part of the emerging genre of what we call neo-passing narratives. Neo-passing narratives are contemporary narratives that depict someone being taken for an identity other than what s/he is considered really to be. That these texts are written, constructed, or produced at a time when passing should have passed reveals that the questions passing raises--questions about how identity is performed and contested in relation to social norms--are just as relevant now as they were at the turn of the twentieth century"--
ER  -