{"product_id":"crossing-the-line-9780822324799","title":"Crossing the Line","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuitable for the scholars of American studies, African American studies, cultural studies, and literary criticism, this title uses cultural narratives of passing to illuminate both the contradictions of race and the deployment of such contradictions for a variety of needs, interests, and desires.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCrossing the Line\u003c\/i\u003e offers a superbly well-developed analysis of narratives of racial passing and a strategy for engaging such narratives. It will set the standard for subsequent treatments of racial passing.”—Dana Nelson, author of \u003ci\u003eNational Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Deeply engaging, well-researched, and effective, \u003ci\u003eCrossing the Line\u003c\/i\u003e is a fine multidisciplinary study not only of passing narratives but of the social, political, and economic struggles that they negotiate in racial terms.”—\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ePriscilla Wald, author of \u003ci\u003eConstituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Race, Passing, and Cultural Representation\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1. Home Again: Racial Negotiations in Modernist African American Passing Narratives\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 2. Mezz Mezzrow and the Voluntary Negro Blues \u003cbr\u003e 3. Boundaries Lost and Found: Racial Passing and Cinematic Representation, circa 1949\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 4. “I’m Through with Passing”: Postpassing Narratives in Black Popular Literary Culture \u003cbr\u003e 5. “A Most Disagreeable Mirror”: Reflections on White Identity in \u003ci\u003eBlack Like Me\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Passing, “Color Blindness,” and Contemporary Discourses of Race and Identity \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884712472919,"sku":"9780822324799","price":63.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822324799.jpg?v=1722533133","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/crossing-the-line-9780822324799","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}