Neo-Passing: Performing Identity After Jim Crow

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African Americans once passed as whites to escape the pains of racism. Today's neo-passing has pushed the old idea of passing in extraordinary new directions. A white author uses an Asian pen name; heterosexuals live "out" as gay; and, irony of ironies, whites try to pass as black. Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young present essays that explore practices, performances, and texts of neo-passing in our supposedly postracial moment. The authors...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0252083237

ISBN13:9780252083235

Release Date:February 2018

Publisher:University of Illinois Press

Length:296 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"

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