Racial Passing
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A Chosen Exile
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Author : Allyson Hobbs
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2014-10-13
A Chosen Exile written by Allyson Hobbs and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap into another. This revelatory history of passing explores the possibilities and challenges that racial indeterminacy presented to men and women living in a country obsessed with racial distinctions. It also tells a tale of loss. As racial relations in America have evolved so has the significance of passing. To pass as white in the antebellum South was to escape the shackles of slavery. After emancipation, many African Americans came to regard passing as a form of betrayal, a selling of one’s birthright. When the initially hopeful period of Reconstruction proved short-lived, passing became an opportunity to defy Jim Crow and strike out on one’s own. Although black Americans who adopted white identities reaped benefits of expanded opportunity and mobility, Hobbs helps us to recognize and understand the grief, loneliness, and isolation that accompanied—and often outweighed—these rewards. By the dawning of the civil rights era, more and more racially mixed Americans felt the loss of kin and community was too much to bear, that it was time to “pass out” and embrace a black identity. Although recent decades have witnessed an increasingly multiracial society and a growing acceptance of hybridity, the problem of race and identity remains at the center of public debate and emotionally fraught personal decisions.
Crossing The Line
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Author : Gayle Wald
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2000-07-24
Crossing The Line written by Gayle Wald and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-07-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
DIVExamines 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./div
The Theme Of Racial Passing In African American Literature A Strategy To Overcome Obstacles And Gain Social Acceptance
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Author : Julia C. Hartenbach
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2018-10-04
The Theme Of Racial Passing In African American Literature A Strategy To Overcome Obstacles And Gain Social Acceptance written by Julia C. Hartenbach and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1.3, University of Freiburg, course: Hauptseminar African American Literature, language: English, abstract: In this paper, I will examine the theme of racial passing in African American narratives more closely by defining the term ‘passing’ more explicitly, and by giving a brief overview of the historical circumstances that led light-skinned African Americans to pass as white. Subsequently, I will focus on how racial passing is represented in literature written by African American authors. Therefore, I chose two novels that are commonly considered to be quintessential texts dealing with the phenomenon of racial passing, namely James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man and Nella Larsen’s Passing. I will argue that the process of racial passing is an ongoing one, proceeding in three stages ...
Erasure And Recollection Memories Of Racial Passing
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Author : Hélène Charlery
language : en
Publisher: P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques Internationales
Release Date : 2021-09-24
Erasure And Recollection Memories Of Racial Passing written by Hélène Charlery and has been published by P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques Internationales this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-24 with categories.
Focusing on how individual or collective memory grapples with a racially divided past, struggling with its legacy or playing with its stereotypes, the articles in this volume examine the memory of racial passing in the literature and the cinema of the English-speaking world within, but also beyond, the United States.
Passing
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Author : Nella Larsen
language : en
Publisher: Alien Ebooks
Release Date : 2022
Passing written by Nella Larsen and has been published by Alien Ebooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Fiction categories.
Harlem Renaissance author Nella Larsen (1891 –1964) published just two novels and three short stories in her lifetime, but achieved lasting literary acclaim. Her classic novel Passing first appeared in 1926.
Racial Passing
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Author : Sandra Radtke
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2007-08
Racial Passing written by Sandra Radtke and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08 with Art categories.
Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Dresden Technical University, 36 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In the following, I would like to give a brief abstract of my thesis. Chiefly, I want to explore three major novels of the Harlem Renaissance - Nella Larsen's Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929) as well as Jessie Fauset's Plum Bun (1929). As all of them deal with racial passing, this issue will be the topic of the first part in order to provide an insight into the matter. The main focus will be on black-to-white passing, which is primarily a cultural phenomenon of the United States. After a definition of the term with the help of several basic typologies, I would like to proceed to concomitants like secrecy, the question of guilt and the white people's view on passing. Subsequently, the passer ought to be the focus of closer examination, followed by an exploration of laws and folk beliefs evolving around the mulatto as the typical passing figure. After this theoretical embedding, I will take a closer look at passing in literature including an analysis of the emergence of the phenomenon as a literary genre. Additionally, the passing figure in literature, the "tragic mulatto", is to be investigated. Concluding, a chapter on other forms of passing shall be added for the sake of completeness. In the second part, these theoretical cognitions are supposed to be employed to find an approach to the novels that are going to be examined with regard to the matters that evolve around passing, i.e. the secrecy involved, the return home and the tragic death of the heroine. Juda Bennett's list of similarities among passing novels is supposed to provide a framework here. Afterwards, other forms of passing depicted in the novels will come to the fore including an examination of racism in connection with sexism.
Passing For Who You Really Are
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Author : A. D. Powell
language : en
Publisher: Backintyme
Release Date : 2005
Passing For Who You Really Are written by A. D. Powell and has been published by Backintyme this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Psychology categories.
This eloquent spokesperson of the movement to abolish government sponsorship of the race notion believes that the one-drop rule ignores science, crushes tolerance, and mocks the American Dream. This collection of essays on multi-racialism originally appeared in Interracial Voice magazine.
Passing Interest
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Author : Julie Cary Nerad
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2014-07-01
Passing Interest written by Julie Cary Nerad and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Explores how the trope of racial passing continues to serve as a touchstone for gauging public beliefs and anxieties about race in this multiracial era. The first volume to focus on the trope of racial passing in novels, memoirs, television, and films published or produced between 1990 and 2010, Passing Interest takes the scholarly conversation on passing into the twenty-first century. With contributors working in the fields of African American studies, American studies, cultural studies, film studies, literature, and media studies, this book offers a rich, interdisciplinary survey of critical approaches to a broad range of contemporary passing texts. Contributors frame recent passing texts with a wide array of cultural discourses, including immigration law, the Post-Soul Aesthetic, contemporary political satire, affirmative action, the paradoxes of colorblindness, and the rhetoric of post-racialism. Many explore whether one drop of blood still governs our sense of racial identity, or to what extent contemporary American culture allows for the racially indeterminate individual. Some essays open the scholarly conversation to focus on ethnic passersindividuals who complicate the traditional black-white binarywhile others explore the slippage between traditional racial passing and related forms of racial performance, including blackface minstrelsy and racial masquerade.
Racial Passing A Comparative Reading Of Jessie Fauset S Plum Bun And Nella Larsen S Passing And Quicksand
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Author : Sandra Radtke
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2007-06-17
Racial Passing A Comparative Reading Of Jessie Fauset S Plum Bun And Nella Larsen S Passing And Quicksand written by Sandra Radtke and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-17 with Literary Collections categories.
Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Dresden Technical University, language: English, abstract: In the following, I would like to give a brief abstract of my thesis. Chiefly, I want to explore three major novels of the Harlem Renaissance - Nella Larsen’s Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929) as well as Jessie Fauset’s Plum Bun (1929). As all of them deal with racial passing, this issue will be the topic of the first part in order to provide an insight into the matter. The main focus will be on black-to-white passing, which is primarily a cultural phenomenon of the United States. After a definition of the term with the help of several basic typologies, I would like to proceed to concomitants like secrecy, the question of guilt and the white people’s view on passing. Subsequently, the passer ought to be the focus of closer examination, followed by an exploration of laws and folk beliefs evolving around the mulatto as the typical passing figure. After this theoretical embedding, I will take a closer look at passing in literature including an analysis of the emergence of the phenomenon as a literary genre. Additionally, the passing figure in literature, the “tragic mulatto”, is to be investigated. Concluding, a chapter on other forms of passing shall be added for the sake of completeness. In the second part, these theoretical cognitions are supposed to be employed to find an approach to the novels that are going to be examined with regard to the matters that evolve around passing, i.e. the secrecy involved, the return home and the tragic death of the heroine. Juda Bennett’s list of similarities among passing novels is supposed to provide a framework here. Afterwards, other forms of passing depicted in the novels will come to the fore including an examination of racism in connection with sexism.
Near Black
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Author : Baz Dreisinger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Near Black written by Baz Dreisinger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with American literature categories.
A provocative look at the shifting contours of racial identity in America.