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Crossing the line : racial passing in twentieth-century U.S. literature and culture

Author: Gayle Wald
Publisher: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2000.
Series: New Americanists.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Wald, Gayle, 1965-
Crossing the line.
Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2000
(OCoLC)606452661
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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