Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture

by Gayle Wald

Book Overview

As W. E. B. DuBois famously prophesied in The Souls of Black Folk, the fiction of the color line has been of urgent concern in defining a certain twentieth-century U.S. racial "order." Yet the very arbitrariness of this line also gives rise to opportunities for racial "passing," a practice through which subjects appropriate the terms of racial discourse. To erode race's authority, Gayle Wald argues, we must understand how race defines and yet...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822325152
• ISBN13: 9780822325154
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"