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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Wald, Gayle, 1965- Crossing the line. Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2000 (OCoLC)606452661 |
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| Named Person: | Mezz Mezzrow |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Gayle Wald |
| ISBN: | 0822325152 9780822325154 0822324792 9780822324799 |
| OCLC Number: | 42882834 |
| Notes: | Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 1995. |
| Description: | xiii, 251 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction : Race, passing, and cultural representation -- Home again : racial negotiations in modernist African American passing narratives -- Mezz Mezzrow and the voluntary negro blues -- Boundaries lost and found : racial passing and cinematic representation, circa 1949 -- "I'm through with passing" : postpassing narratives in Black popular literary culture -- "A most disagreeable mirror" : reflections of white identity in Black like me -- Epilogue : Passing, "color blindness," and contemporary discourses of race and identity. |
| Series Title: | New Americanists. |
| Responsibility: | Gayle Wald. |
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- American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Passing (Identity) -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- American prose literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
- African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
- Racially mixed people in literature.
- Passing (Identity) in literature.
- African Americans in literature.
- Group identity in literature.
- Race in literature.
- Rassenverhoudingen.
- Etnisch bewustzijn.
- Letterkunde.
- Mezzrow, Mezz
- Literatur
- Rassische Identität
- Rassenbeziehung (Motiv)
- Rassenfrage
- Passing
- Blues
- USA
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