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853507
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Dagbovie-Mullins, Sika A.
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| Title & Author
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Crossing b(l)ack : : mixed-race identity in modern American fiction and culture /\ Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins.
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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Knoxville :: University of Tennessee Press,, ©2013.
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1 online resource (x, 171 pages)
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| ISBN
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1572339772
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: 9781572339774
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1572339322
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9781572339323
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-159) and index.
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| Contents
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What's old is new again, or The brand new fetish : black/white bodies in American racial discourse -- From Naxos to Copenhagen : Helga Crane's mixed-race aspirations in Nella Larsen's Quicksand -- Homeward bound : negotiating borders in Lucinda Roy's Lady Moses and Danzy Senna's Caucasia -- "This is how memory works" : boundary crossing, belonging, and Blackness in mixed-race autobiographies -- B(l)ack to last drop? Mariah Carey, Halle Berry, and the complexities of racial identity in popular culture.
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The past two decades have seen a growing influx of biracial discourse in fiction, memoir, and theory, and since the 2008 election of Barack Obama to the presidency, debates over whether America has entered a "post-racial" phase have set the media abuzz. In this penetrating and provocative study, the author adds a new dimension to this dialogue as she investigates the ways in which various mixed-race writers and public figures have redefined both "blackness" and "whiteness" by invoking multiple racial identities. Focusing on several key novels - Nella Larsen's Quicksand (1928), Lucinda Roy's Lady Moses (1998), and Danzy Senna's Caucasia (1998) - as well as memoirs by Obama, James McBride, and Rebecca Walker and the personae of singer Mariah Carey and actress Halle Berry, the author challenges conventional claims about biracial identification with a concept she calls "black-sentient mixed-race identity." Whereas some multiracial organizations can diminish blackness by, for example, championing the inclusion of multiple-race options on census forms and similar documents, a black-sentient consciousness stresses a perception rooted in blackness - "a connection to a black consciousness," writes the author, "that does not overdetermine but still plays a large role in one's racial identification." By examining the nuances of this concept through close readings of fiction, memoir, and the public images of mixed-race celebrities, this book demonstrates how a "black-sentient mixed-race identity reconciles the widening separation between black/white mixed race and blackness that has been encouraged by contemporary mixed-race politics and popular culture."
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African Americans-- Race identity.
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American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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American fiction-- 21st century-- History and criticism.
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Passing (Identity) in literature.
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Racially mixed people in literature.
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Racially mixed people-- Race identity-- United States.
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African Americans-- Race identity.
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American fiction.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- General.
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Passing (Identity) in literature.
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Racially mixed people in literature.
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Racially mixed people-- Race identity.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.5409896073
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PS374.N4D34 2013eb
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