Neo-Passing: Performing Identity After Jim Crow

by Michele Elam and Gayle Wald

African Americans once passed as whites to escape the pains of racism. Today's neo-passing has pushed the old idea of passing in extraordinary new directions. A white author uses an Asian pen name; heterosexuals live "out" as gay; and, irony of ironies, whites try to pass as black. Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young present essays that explore practices, performances, and texts of neo-passing in our supposedly postracial moment. The authors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252083237
• ISBN13: 9780252083235
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"