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"The essays offer insight into how the end of de jure segregation shifted the significance of 'cultural authenticity' in a way that values nonwhite racial and ethnic identities as forms of property, and they demonstrate that the black-white boundary has been destabilized (although not destroyed) through continued multi-racial and multi-ethnic identification." --MELUS
“Excellently introduced by Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young, the ten essays collected in this volume offer a wealth of information, from a working bibliography of neo-passing narratives to interpretive overviews of passing, old and new. The essays suggest that despite all historical, legal, and attitudinal changes in the course of the twentieth century, race remains a central obsession in the United States.”--Werner Sollors, author of The Temptation of Despair: Tales of the 1940s
"Highly recommended." --Choice

NeoPassing Performing Identity after Jim Crow

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      Publisher: University of Illinois Press
      Publication Date: 21/02/2018
      ISBN13: 9780252041587, 978-0252041587
      ISBN10: 0252041585
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      Social and cultural history Ethnic studies / Ethnicity

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "The essays offer insight into how the end of de jure segregation shifted the significance of 'cultural authenticity' in a way that values nonwhite racial and ethnic identities as forms of property, and they demonstrate that the black-white boundary has been destabilized (although not destroyed) through continued multi-racial and multi-ethnic identification." --MELUS
      “Excellently introduced by Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young, the ten essays collected in this volume offer a wealth of information, from a working bibliography of neo-passing narratives to interpretive overviews of passing, old and new. The essays suggest that despite all historical, legal, and attitudinal changes in the course of the twentieth century, race remains a central obsession in the United States.”--Werner Sollors, author of The Temptation of Despair: Tales of the 1940s
      "Highly recommended." --Choice

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