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g40_petty.txt Passing characters like Pinky are conceived of as monstrous in part because of the racial hybridity that manifests in a white-looking body that is socially defined as black, and in part because the social definition of blackness itself carries a long-standing set of associations with sub-humanity, deformity and monstrousness. Though this scene pushes the boundaries of racial and gender conceptions by ostensibly inverting the racial identity of aggressor and prey, the inversion nonetheless relies upon the assumption of monstrosity that has accumulated around the film’s disembodied black presence. She is greeted by a saleswoman who treats her kindly and courteously; thus we understand that Pinky is "passing." [28] Pinky’s racial transgression is made clearer still when Mrs. www.genders.org /g40/g40_petty.txt

OhioLINK ETD: Nakachi, Sachi To discuss what Judith Butler calls “the performativity of identity” in the interracial context, “passing,” “masquerading” and “mimicking” are used as key strategies. Mixed-Race Identity (Multiracial Identity); Passing; Nella Larsen; Winnifred Eaton (Onoto Watanna); Hybridity The ideological complexities of mixed-race identity, which is “in-between” races, are the focus of my argument. www.ohiolink.edu /etd/view.cgi?ohiou1005675005

Jessie Redmon Fauset: Selected Articles Indexed in the MLA International Bibliography Database “Passing Transgressions and Authentic Identity in Jessie Fauset’s Plum Bun and Nella Larsen’s Passing.” Literature and Racial Ambiguity. “A Bitter Journey: The ‘Passing’ Mulatta as ‘Expatriate’ in Jessie Redmon Fauset’s Plum Bun.” Prospero 2 (1995): 35-45. Feeney, Joseph J. “Black Childhood as Ironic: A Nursery Rhyme Transformed in Jessie Fauset’s Novel Plum Bun.” Minority Voices 4.2 (1980): 65-69. www.fishernews.org /articles/fauset.htm

Boston College Front Row - Passing in Boston: the Remarkable Story of the Healy Family Although Gleeson should perhaps have lent more credence to recent studies of the racial formation of Irish immigrants as "white" Americans, and might also have advanced a more nuanced conceptualization of the contingency and mutability of racial and ethnic identity, he makes an important contribution by studying this neglected group. Irish immigrants also experienced readier racial and ethnic acceptance in the South, Gleeson contends, and this integration was facilitated by the assistance of the Catholic Church and by Irish immigrants' embrace of slavery and white supremacy. Jacobson argues that "by far the most powerful language of racial differentiation applied to the Irish," who, like African Americans, were considered to have "primitive" physiognomy and character. frontrow.bc.edu /program/otoole

American Passages - Unit 10. Rhythms in Poetry: Authors His ability to straddle cultures became a mixed blessing for Toomer, as he struggled to secure a stable identity in a nation with a long habit of dividing itself along racial lines. Light-skinned enough to "pass," Toomer grappled with his complicated racial identity all his life. Toomer was not alone in this predicament; novelists James Weldon Johnson and Nella Larsen both explored the notion of passing in their fiction. www.learner.org /amerpass/unit10/authors-9.html   (545 words)

H-Net Review: Martin Hewitt on Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the British Reform Act of 1867 It is the working-through of such assumptions in exchanges over citizenship, nationhood and identity within the debates over parliamentary reform in the run up to what became the 1867 Reform Act, and in its immediate aftermath, which forms the focus of this volume. Hall notes that whereas in the later twentieth century citizenship came to be legally defined by stipulations about parentage and birthplace, which have clear racial overtones, in the mid-nineteenth century the badge of citizenship was the vote. Even so, the discussions admirably emphasise that there is much more at issue in the passing of the 1867 act and the debates which accompanied it than questions over which stratum of respectable working-class men would be included within the franchise. www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=251131032244214   (3289 words)

Boston College Front Row - Passing in Boston: the Remarkable Story of the Healy Family The Healys' racial self-fashioning—and the Church's facilitation of it—appear all the more remarkable in light of the centrality of the "black" identity embraced by and imposed upon the Oblate sisters. The Healy children consolidated their "white" racial identities during Reconstruction, a period of hardening racial division. Boston College History Professor James O’Toole reads from his book Passing for White: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820-1920. frontrow.bc.edu /program/otoole   (2061 words)

Latin American Issues, Volume 13 -Section IV For the purposes of this article, the term "multiracial" is intended to signify an identity which has arisen out of a colonial history. Multiracial women, in particular, have historically been portrayed as flawed, doomed heroines who have to rely on what is perceived to be their formidable and excessive allure and sexuality in order to survive. Furthermore, certain multiracial people must ask themselves if they wish to continue to associate themselves with a colonial hierarchy of colour and class which can automatically invest them with racial privilege that is associated with white supremacy and economic elites. webpub.alleg.edu /group/LAS/LatinAmIssues/Articles/Vol13/LAI_vol_13_section_IV.html   (5053 words)

World History Connected Vol. 1 No. 2 Steve Murdoch: John Brown: A Black Female Soldier in the Royal African Company The lack of interest in John Brown's racial identity was no doubt due to the increasing presence of black mariners in European maritime service by that time. The fact that John Brown lay with them also tells us both that there was no racial segregation and that the other passengers were all men. What seems to have been of only passing interest to Phillips was that John Brown was also black. worldhistoryconnected.press.uiuc.edu /1.2/murdoch_print.html   (5053 words)

agora - olson The herrenvolk era, which we can date from roughly the 1670s (when explicitly racial slavery was codified into the colonial statutes) to 1964-65 and the passing of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, produced a peculiar form of identity I call white citizenship. The civil rights movement was a watershed in American history, not only because it ended legal segregation, but also because it dismantled the herrenvolk ideal that shaped our racial identities for centuries. The herrenvolk was a curious combination of democracy and tyranny, equality and supremacy, all of which coexisted with state repression, mob violence, and widespread belief (justified by God and science) of the eternal inequality of humanity. agora.stanford.edu /agora/cgi-bin/article2_race.cgi?library=olson   (8618 words)

The Blog Joshua Zeitz: White Supremacists in the Closet The Huffington Post In 1997 the magazine ran a glowing tribute to Madison Grant, the long-deceased author of "The Passing of the Great Race (1916), a pseudo-science tract -- highly popular in its day -- that blasted interracial marriages and championed eugenics, all in the service of preserving white racial integrity. The American Renaissance article casually observed that when Grant was in his scholarly prime, “just as it does today, the American identity faced a two-pronged threat: a large influx of aliens and the presence of a large, Negro element.” In the final balance, according to George McDaniel, one of the magazine’s editors, Grant’s “dreams of racial preservation, which he saw as part and parcel of nature conservation, are reviled today by all but a few. www.huffingtonpost.com /theblog/archive/joshua-zeitz/white-supremacists-in-the_429.html   (1205 words)

Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy: Selected Bibliography Feminist and Racial Politics in Ramona and Iola Leroy." Beyond the Binary: Reconstructing Cultural Identity in a Multicultural Context. "Little Romances and Mulatta Heroines: Passing for a 'True' Woman in Frances Harper's Iola Leroy and Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces." Nineteenth-Century Feminisms 2 (2000): 103-24. Selected Bibliography on Frances E. Harper and Iola Leroy guweb2.gonzaga.edu /faculty/campbell/enl413/harbib.htm   (1205 words)

Mixed Media Watch - tracking media representations of mixed people » Blog Archive » Essence on Mariah Carey’s struggles with mixed race identity This entry was posted on Monday, March 14th, 2005 at 2:23 pm and is filed under General, Identity Groups, Issues, Media Representations, African-American, Latino, Interracial Relationships, Mixed Community, Mixed Race Identity, Parenting Mixed Kids, Racial Classification, Magazines, Music, Caucasian, Passing. Essence magazine appears to describe her struggles through life, but she’s famous and rich for fuck sake. And how dare you refer to essence as a stupid “black militant” magazine, so If blacks have something that they can portray “themselves” in positively and its not targeting white people, or any other race. www.mixedmediawatch.com /index.php/archives/2005/03/mariah-carey-is-essences-cover-story   (1205 words)

African American Review: The Mirror and the Veil: The Passing Novel and the Quest for American Racial Identity - Critical Essay Thus, the I, conceived in the mirror stage, becomes ironically the "alienating armour" of social identity, a construct whose mandate is to correspond to the self, and yet whose very existence involves the subject in a complex and mutually reflective relationship with the "other." The paradox at the heart of the mirror stage is that the subjective construction of the I is predicated on an objective and problematic icon: the mirror image. Put simply, the mirror stage as Lacan imagines it is this: The child is held up to a mirror by his mother. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2838/is_3_33/ai_58056037   (1205 words)

EI > Interviews > Wentworth Miller Not only was Miller expected to take on the racial identity of a black man but he had to take on the persona of Hopkins in younger form. STAIN deals with the whole idea of “passing” for a different race than one may actually be. I had asked Miller how he went about auditioning for the role of a black man. Given Miller’s very light complexion, I had wrongfully assumed that he was Caucasian. www.einsiders.com /features/interviews/wentworthmiller.php   (556 words)

African American Review: Nella Larsen's 'Passing' and the fading subject Although many critics have accused Nella Larsen of using race as a pretext for examining other issues,(1) Passing (1929), her second novel, is profoundly concerned with racial identity. Larsen's childhood rejection was seemingly reiterated in her 1919 marriage to Elmer S. Imes, which ended in a much-publicized divorce in 1933. Larsen vanished temporarily, resurfacing three years later at the Lincoln Training Hospital in New York City as a student nurse, where, according to Davis, she began her ascent into the black middle class all alone (66, 70-72). www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2838/is_n3_v32/ai_21232159   (1011 words)

Charles W. Chesnutt: Stories, Novels, and Essays Book Description: Rejecting his era's genteel hypocrisy about miscegenation, lynching, and "passing," Charles W. Chesnutt broke new ground in American literature with his innovative explorations of racial identity and use of African-American speech and folklore. Chesnutt exposed the deformed logic of the Jim Crow system-creating, in the process, the modern African-American novel. Here is the best of Chesnutt's fiction and nonfiction in the largest and most comprehensive edition ever published, featuring a newly researched chronology of the writer's life. isbn.nu /1931082065   (541 words)

Local World IT :: Passing and the Fictions of Identity (New Americanists) Passing: Identity and Interpretation in Sexuality, Race, and Religion (Sexual Cultures Series) Passing and the Fictions of Identity (New Americanists) Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture (New Americanists) www.localworldit.com.au /computers/Passing_and_the_Fictions_of_Identity_(New_Americanists)/0822317648.html   (541 words)

Bublos.com: Compare Book Prices ›› Caucasia - Danzy Senna - Paperback In the tradition of Nella Larsen's Passing, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, and James McBride's The Color of Water, Danzy Senna's first novel, Caucasia, explores the complexity of racial discord in America. Without a doubt, Caucasia is one of the most sophisticated and compelling novels about race and identity to emerge in years. The questions of biraciality in Caucasia, inspired by Senna's own life, account for the poignancy, realistic complexity, and nuance intrinsic to the novel. www.bublos.net /isbn/1573227161.html   (1266 words)

ASTRO-THEOLOGY & SIDEREAL MYTHOLOGY - PAGE 2 - THE IRISH ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATION... Nevertheless this jive, passing for history, has certainly fooled the vast majority of gullible under-educated Westerners who, after losing their own racial and cultural identity, will believe anything they are told. This effrontery is matched only by the sycophantism and guile of those complicit western "educators" who no longer, as they one did, slap down this obscene fiction. Out of the ashes and ruins of these high Stellar cultures, and in order to appear exotic and illustrious themselves, the Judites took the remnants of Stellar theology and philosophy and patched it together into a hideous travesty of what it once was. www.taroscopes.com /astro-theology/astrotheology2.html   (14531 words)

Untitled Document The act required that people be classified primarily on the basis of their "community acceptability"; later amendments placed greater stress on "appearance" in order to deal with the practice of light-colored blacks "passing" as whites. The Group Areas Act (No. 41) of 1950 extended the provisions of the Natives Land Act (No. 27) of 1913, and later laws divided South Africa into separate areas for whites and blacks (including coloureds), and gave the government the power to forcibly remove people from areas not designated for their particular racial group. The act also provided for the compilation of a population register for the whole country and for the issuing of identity cards. www.stage-door.org /photoalbum/vacation/southafrica/apartheid.htm   (1064 words)

South Africa - Legislative Implementation of Apartheid The act required that people be classified primarily on the basis of their "community acceptability"; later amendments placed greater stress on "appearance" in order to deal with the practice of light-colored blacks "passing" as whites. The Group Areas Act (No. 41) of 1950 extended the provisions of the Natives Land Act (No. 27) of 1913, and later laws divided South Africa into separate areas for whites and blacks (including coloureds), and gave the government the power to forcibly remove people from areas not designated for their particular racial group. The act also provided for the compilation of a population register for the whole country and for the issuing of identity cards. countrystudies.us /south-africa/25.htm   (1144 words)

South Africa Separating Black from White - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, Social Statistics, Political System The act required that people be classified primarily on the basis of their "community acceptability"; later amendments placed greater stress on "appearance" in order to deal with the practice of light-colored blacks "passing" as whites. The Group Areas Act (No. 41) of 1950 extended the provisions of the Natives Land Act (No. 27) of 1913, and later laws divided South Africa into separate areas for whites and blacks (including coloureds), and gave the government the power to forcibly remove people from areas not designated for their particular racial group. The act also provided for the compilation of a population register for the whole country and for the issuing of identity cards. workmall.com /wfb2001/south_africa/south_africa_history_separating_black_from_white.html   (539 words)

Robert S. Chang, Racial Cross-Dressing, 2 Harvard Latino Law Review 423 (1997) In its interrogation of the essentialism that is the foundation of identity politics, passing has the potential to create a space for creative self-determination and agency: the opportunity to construct new identities, to experiment with multiple subject positions, and to cross social and economic boundaries that exclude or oppress. She goes on to argue "that transvestism is a space of possibility structuring and confounding culture: the disruptive element that intervenes, not just a category crisis of male and female, but the crisis of category itself." Id. She defines this as "a failure of definitional distinction, a borderline that becomes permeable, that permits border crossings from one (apparently distinct) category to another." Marjorie Garber, Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety 16 (1992). personal.law.miami.edu /~fvaldes/latcrit/archives/harvard/chang.htm   (2993 words)

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