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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"racial passing"”.
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"Passing women": gender and hybridity in the fiction of three female South African authors
… of coloured women with reference to racial passing, using fictive characters depicted in Sarah Gertrude Millin�s (1924) God's Stepchildren, Zo� Wicomb's (2006) Playing in the Light, and Pat Stamat�los's (2005) Kroes, as presented by these three racially distinct female South African …
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New York City Street Theater: Gender, Performance, and the Urban from Plessy to Brown
… I examine a range of actions from bragging to racial passing, and I argue these ordinary performances are central to our ability to interpret race, gender, and class relations. I detect race, class, and gender-based impulses to segregate and exclude others that overlap with the motives guiding …
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The Sociopolitical Construction Of Race And Literary Representations Of The Biracial Subject
… American literature incorporates interracial and biracial themes that bring to light the often unnamed and unrecognized biracial identities of many Americans. Unfortunately, despite the potential value for a deeper understanding of the construction of race, these themes have seldom been …
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PASSING AS JEWISH: THE MATERIAL CONSEQUENCES OF RACE AND THE PROPERTY OF WHITENESS IN LATE TWENTIETH-CENTURY PASSING NOVELS
This thesis discusses passing and performing as Jewish in Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen, Caucasia by Danzy Senna, and The Human Stain by Philip Roth. In the introduction, I provide historical background on the development of the concept of race, Jewish American assimilation, and racial …
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The Sigh of Triple Consciousness: Blacks Who Blurred the Color Line in Films from the 1930s through the 1950s
… thesis will identify an over looked subset of racial identity as seen through film narratives from the 1930’s through the 1950’s pre-Civil Rights era. The subcategory of racial identity is the necessity of passing for Black people then identified as Negro. The primary film narratives include …
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“More than What [They] Made Us to Be”: From Passing to Perception in Victorian and Modern Vampire Media
… figures, maneuvering within social confines of passing until their status quo-threatening identity is exposed. Of the popular vampires from this period, most gradually fail to maintain status as social insiders—as demonstrated with Bram Stoker’s Count Dracula or Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla, who …