Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture

by Gayle Wald

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As W. E. B. DuBois famously prophesied in The Souls of Black Folk, the fiction of the color line has been of urgent concern in defining a certain twentieth-century U.S. racial "order." Yet the very arbitrariness of this line also gives rise to opportunities for racial "passing," a practice through which subjects appropriate the terms of racial discourse. To erode race's authority, Gayle Wald argues, we must understand how race defines and yet...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822325152

ISBN13:9780822325154

Release Date:July 2000

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

African-American Studies Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics

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