The Passing Figure: Racial Confusion in Modern American LiteraturePeter Lang, 1996 - 142 pagina's How and when does literature most effectively uncover race to be a mataphor? The passing figure, a light-skinned African-American capable and willing to pass for white, provides the thematic focus to this provocative study. In exploring the social and cultural history of this distinctly American phenomenon, Bennett moves freely between literature, film, and music, arguing that the passing figure is crucial to our understanding of past and present conceptions of race. |
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... W. E. B. Du Bois . In the wake of Reconstruction , Black Migration , and Jim Crow Laws , W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk examined the " radical and more uncompromising drawing of the color - line in recent years " ( 334 ) ...
... W. E. B. Du Bois . In the wake of Reconstruction , Black Migration , and Jim Crow Laws , W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk examined the " radical and more uncompromising drawing of the color - line in recent years " ( 334 ) ...
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Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature Juda Bennett. rary but a personal friend of W. E. B. Du Bois . Amidst all this creative interest in the passing figure ( who was , after all , caught between two worlds and two bloods ) , Du ...
Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature Juda Bennett. rary but a personal friend of W. E. B. Du Bois . Amidst all this creative interest in the passing figure ( who was , after all , caught between two worlds and two bloods ) , Du ...
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... W. E. B. Du Bois , as well as greater sense of the dividedness of Negroes and the Negro , to allow for a different story of passing to be told . Passing brings us behind the Veil to see what it is like to be a problem , to learn what it ...
... W. E. B. Du Bois , as well as greater sense of the dividedness of Negroes and the Negro , to allow for a different story of passing to be told . Passing brings us behind the Veil to see what it is like to be a problem , to learn what it ...
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An Introduction to Passing | 1 |
Theme to Genre | 35 |
How White People Pass | 61 |
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