Neo-passing [electronic resource] : performing identity after Jim Crow / edited by Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young ; foreword by Gayle Wald ; afterword by Michele Elam.

"This volume seeks to theorize and explore the concept of "neo-passing," or the proliferation of passing in the post-Jim Crow moment. Why--in our "color-blind" or "post-racial" moment--is passing still of such literary and cultural interest? To answer this question, chapters in this book focus on a...

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