{"product_id":"crossing-the-line-9780822325154","title":"Crossing the Line","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines constructions of racial identity through the exploration of passing narratives including forties jazz musician Mezz Mezzrow's memoir Really the Blues\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":49406025564503,"sku":"9780822325154","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822325154.jpg?v=1730494284","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/crossing-the-line-9780822325154","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}