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Neo-Passing : Performing Identity After Jim Crow by Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young (Editors),Gayle Wald (Foreword),Michele Elam (Afterword) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Bringing together fifteen essays by leading scholars, including a theoretical introduction by the editors and an insightful foreword and afterword by Gayle Wald and Michele Elam, respectively, this volume analyzes Godfrey and Young’s neologism __neo-passing__. Godfrey and Young define __neo-passing__ as narratives and performative acts of passing that recall the complex racial politics that define classic tales of passing, such as Nella Larsen’s __Passing__ (1929) and James Weldon Johnson’s __The Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man__ (1912). The difference, however, between the former concept of passing and what Godfrey and Young call neo-passing is that neo-passing is performed and/or produced in various media after the end of legal segregation (circa 1954). Beginning with the Jim Crow–era assumption that passing will come to pass as soon as desegregation begins, this volume investigates how and why passing not only persists in the post–Jim Crow moment but has also proliferated. As with both neo-slave and neo-segregation narratives, performances of neo-passing speak to contemporary racial injustices and ideologies, asking readers to hold these in mind alongside the racial injustice

Who reads Neo-Passing : Performing Identity After Jim Crow?

Author

Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young (Editors),Gayle Wald (Foreword),Michele Elam (Afterword)

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780252041587

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction