عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
E184.A1 D73 2008
E184
.
A1
D73
2008
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
1558496742
(Number (ISBN
1558496750
(Number (ISBN
9781558496743
(Number (ISBN
9781558496750
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Near Black :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
White-to-Black passing in American culture /
First Statement of Responsibility
Baz Dreisinger.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Amherst :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Massachusetts Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
©2008.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
viii, 184 pages ;
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-178) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
White panic and white passing: slavery and reconstruction -- Dy(e)ing to be black: "Mars Jeems's nightmare," Black like me, and Watermelon man -- Black like she: Grace Halsell and the sexuality of passing -- Contagious beats: passing, autobiography, and discourses of American music -- Is passing passé in a "post-race" world? -- Epilogue: hits and misses of a racial free-for-all.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"In Near Black, Baz Dreisinger explores the oft-ignored history of what she calls "reverse racial passing" by looking at a broad spectrum of short stories, novels, films, autobiographies, and pop-culture discourse that depict whites passing for black. The protagonists of these narratives, she shows, span centuries and cross contexts, from slavery to civil rights, jazz to rock to hip-hop. Tracing their role from the 1830s to the present day, Dreisinger argues that central to the enterprise of reverse passing are ideas about proximity. Because "blackness," so to speak, is imagined as transmittable, proximity to blackness is invested with the power to turn whites black: those who are literally "near black" become metaphorically "near black." While this concept first arose during Reconstruction in the context of white anxieties about miscegenation, it was revised by later white passers for whom proximity to blackness became an authenticating badge." "Whether understood as a function of proximity or behavior, skin color or cultural heritage, self-definition or the perception of others, what all these variants of "reverse passing" demonstrate, according to Dreisinger, is that the lines defining racial identity in American culture are not only blurred but subject to change."--Jacket.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Near Black.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
American literature-- History and criticism.
Motion pictures-- United States-- History.
Passing (Identity)-- United States.
Popular culture-- United States.
Race in literature.
Race in motion pictures.
Whites-- Race identity-- United States.
American literature.
Ethnische Beziehung.
Ethnische Identität.
Massenkultur.
Motion pictures.
Passing (Identity)
Passing.
Popular culture.
Race in literature.
Race in motion pictures.
Race relations.
Rassenbeziehung.
Rassische Identität.
Weiße.
Whites-- Race identity.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
United States, Race relations.
United States.
USA.
USA.
Weiße.
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DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
305
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809073
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
E184
.
A1
Book number
D73
2008
OTHER CLASS NUMBERS
Class number
MS
3530
System Code
rvk
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Dreisinger, Baz,1976-
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20200823043200.0
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
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