Crossing b(l)ack mixed-race identity in modern American fiction and culture /
Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins.
- first edition.
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (x, 171 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
What's old is new again, or The brand new fetish: black/white bodies in American racial discourse -- From naxos to Copenhagen: Helga Crane's mixed-race aspirations in Nella Larsen's Quicksand -- Homeward bound: negotiating borders in Lucinda Roy's Lady Moses and Danzy Senna's Caucasia -- "This is how memory works": boundary crossing, belonging, and Blackness in mixed-race autobiographies -- B(l)ack to last drop? Mariah Carey, Halle Berry, and the complexities of racial identity in popular culture.
9781572339774
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century American fiction--History and criticism.--21st century African Americans--Race identity. Racially mixed people in literature. Racially mixed people--Race identity--United States. Passing (Identity) in literature.