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Paperback Neo-Passing: Performing Identity After Jim Crow Book

ISBN: 0252083237

ISBN13: 9780252083235

Neo-Passing: Performing Identity After Jim Crow

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...

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