TY - BOOK AU - Godfrey,Mollie AU - Young,Vershawn Ashanti AU - Wald,Gayle AU - Elam,Michele TI - Neo-passing: performing identity after Jim Crow SN - 9780252050244 AV - PS169 .N467 2018 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 - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Introduction : The Neo-Passing Narrative --; Appendix to the Introduction. Neo-Passing Narratives : Teaching and Scholarly Resources --; New Histories. Introduction : Passing at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century ; Why Passing Is (Still) Not Passé after More Than 250 Years : Sources from the Past and Present ; Passing for Postracial : Colorblind Reading Practices of Zombies, Sheriffs, and Slaveholders ; Adam Mansbach's Postracial Imaginary in Angry Black White Boy ; Black President Bush : The Racial and Gender Politics behind Dave Chappelle's Presidential Drag ; Seeing Race in Comics : Passing, Witness, and the Spectacle of Racial Violence in Johnson and Pleece's Incognegro --; New Identities. Introduction : Passing at the Intersections ; Passing Truths : Identity-Immersion Journalism and the Experience of Authenticity ; Passing for Tan : Snooki and the Grotesque Reality of Ethnicity ; The Pass of Least Resistance : Sexual Orientation and Race in ZZ Packer's "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" ; Neo-Passing and Dissociative Identities as Affective Strategies in Frankie and Alice ; "A New Type of Human Being" : Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity as Perpetual Passing in Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex --; Afterword : Why Neo Now?; 2; b 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"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1595821&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -