Legal fictions : constituting race, composing literature / Karla FC Holloway.

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Main Author: Holloway, Karla F. C., 1949-
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > History.
Race discrimination > Law and legislation > United States > History.
Race in literature.
Physical Description:xv, 158 pages.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The capital in question - Imagined liberalism
  • Mapping racial reason
  • Being in place : landscape, never inscape
  • Secondhand tales and hearsay
  • Black legibility : "Can I get a witness"
  • Trying to read me
  • "A novel-like tenor"
  • Passing and protection
  • A secluded colored neighborhood.