Dagbovie-Mullins, Sika A.

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.


Electronic Books.

PS374 / .C767 2013