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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... thought . As if times had not changed , and as if the authors had not been listening to the efforts of African - Americans to define and determine their own future , the amended 1970 publication of Beyond the Melting Pot , with its new ...
... thought . As if times had not changed , and as if the authors had not been listening to the efforts of African - Americans to define and determine their own future , the amended 1970 publication of Beyond the Melting Pot , with its new ...
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... thought He hates me and fears me . So much so that he cannot let me out of his sight With more vocabulary but no more age he might have thought That is why I am different from the others : because he is watching me all the time ...
... thought He hates me and fears me . So much so that he cannot let me out of his sight With more vocabulary but no more age he might have thought That is why I am different from the others : because he is watching me all the time ...
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... thought it improper to question a " white " man's race , Craft tells us that the " gentleman was not of the fairest complexion , and therefore , as my wife was not in the room when I received the information respecting him and his anti ...
... thought it improper to question a " white " man's race , Craft tells us that the " gentleman was not of the fairest complexion , and therefore , as my wife was not in the room when I received the information respecting him and his anti ...
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An Introduction to Passing | 1 |
Theme to Genre | 35 |
How White People Pass | 61 |
Copyright | |
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The Passing Figure: Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature Juda Bennett Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1998 |
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