The Resource Near Black : White-to-Black passing in American culture, Baz Dreisinger
Near Black : White-to-Black passing in American culture, Baz Dreisinger
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The item Near Black : White-to-Black passing in American culture, Baz Dreisinger represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
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- "In Near Black, Baz Dreisinger explores the oft-ignored history of what she calls "reverse racial passing" by looking at a broad spectrum of short stories, novels, films, autobiographies, and pop-culture discourse that depict whites passing for black. The protagonists of these narratives, she shows, span centuries and cross contexts, from slavery to civil rights, jazz to rock to hip-hop. Tracing their role from the 1830s to the present day, Dreisinger argues that central to the enterprise of reverse passing are ideas about proximity. Because "blackness," so to speak, is imagined as transmittable, proximity to blackness is invested with the power to turn whites black: those who are literally "near black" become metaphorically "near black." While this concept first arose during Reconstruction in the context of white anxieties about miscegenation, it was revised by later white passers for whom proximity to blackness became an authenticating badge."
- "Whether understood as a function of proximity or behavior, skin color or cultural heritage, self-definition or the perception of others, what all these variants of "reverse passing" demonstrate, according to Dreisinger, is that the lines defining racial identity in American culture are not only blurred but subject to change."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (viii, 184 pages)
- Contents
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- White panic and white passing: slavery and reconstruction
- Dy(e)ing to be black: "Mars Jeems's nightmare," Black like me, and Watermelon man
- Black like she: Grace Halsell and the sexuality of passing
- Contagious beats: passing, autobiography, and discourses of American music
- Is passing passé in a "post-race" world?
- Epilogue: hits and misses of a racial free-for-all
- Isbn
- 9781613760833
- Label
- Near Black : White-to-Black passing in American culture
- Title
- Near Black
- Title remainder
- White-to-Black passing in American culture
- Statement of responsibility
- Baz Dreisinger
- Subject
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- American literature
- American literature -- History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- Ethnische Beziehungen
- Ethnische Identität
- History
- Massenkultur
- Motion pictures
- Motion pictures -- United States -- History
- Passing
- Passing (Identity)
- Passing (Identity) -- United States
- Popular culture
- Popular culture -- United States
- "Multi-User"
- Race in literature
- Race in motion pictures
- Race in motion pictures
- Race relations
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
- USA
- United States
- United States -- Race relations
- Weiße
- Whites -- Race identity
- Whites -- United States -- Race identity
- Race in literature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- "In Near Black, Baz Dreisinger explores the oft-ignored history of what she calls "reverse racial passing" by looking at a broad spectrum of short stories, novels, films, autobiographies, and pop-culture discourse that depict whites passing for black. The protagonists of these narratives, she shows, span centuries and cross contexts, from slavery to civil rights, jazz to rock to hip-hop. Tracing their role from the 1830s to the present day, Dreisinger argues that central to the enterprise of reverse passing are ideas about proximity. Because "blackness," so to speak, is imagined as transmittable, proximity to blackness is invested with the power to turn whites black: those who are literally "near black" become metaphorically "near black." While this concept first arose during Reconstruction in the context of white anxieties about miscegenation, it was revised by later white passers for whom proximity to blackness became an authenticating badge."
- "Whether understood as a function of proximity or behavior, skin color or cultural heritage, self-definition or the perception of others, what all these variants of "reverse passing" demonstrate, according to Dreisinger, is that the lines defining racial identity in American culture are not only blurred but subject to change."--Jacket
- Action
- digitized
- Cataloging source
- OCLCE
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1976-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Dreisinger, Baz
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- English
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Whites
- Passing (Identity)
- United States
- Popular culture
- Race in literature
- Race in motion pictures
- American literature
- Motion pictures
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- American literature
- Motion pictures
- Passing (Identity)
- Popular culture
- Race in literature
- Race in motion pictures
- Race relations
- Whites
- United States
- Ethnische Identität
- Massenkultur
- Ethnische Beziehungen
- Passing
- USA
- Weiße
- Label
- Near Black : White-to-Black passing in American culture, Baz Dreisinger
- Antecedent source
- file reproduced from original
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-178) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- black and white
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- White panic and white passing: slavery and reconstruction -- Dy(e)ing to be black: "Mars Jeems's nightmare," Black like me, and Watermelon man -- Black like she: Grace Halsell and the sexuality of passing -- Contagious beats: passing, autobiography, and discourses of American music -- Is passing passé in a "post-race" world? -- Epilogue: hits and misses of a racial free-for-all
- Control code
- ocn681472187
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (viii, 184 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781613760833
- Level of compression
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- lossless
- lossy
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt5n0hnr
- Reformatting quality
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- preservation
- access
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)681472187
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
- Label
- Near Black : White-to-Black passing in American culture, Baz Dreisinger
- Antecedent source
- file reproduced from original
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-178) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- black and white
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- White panic and white passing: slavery and reconstruction -- Dy(e)ing to be black: "Mars Jeems's nightmare," Black like me, and Watermelon man -- Black like she: Grace Halsell and the sexuality of passing -- Contagious beats: passing, autobiography, and discourses of American music -- Is passing passé in a "post-race" world? -- Epilogue: hits and misses of a racial free-for-all
- Control code
- ocn681472187
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (viii, 184 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781613760833
- Level of compression
-
- lossless
- lossy
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt5n0hnr
- Reformatting quality
-
- preservation
- access
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)681472187
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Subject
- American literature
- American literature -- History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- Ethnische Beziehungen
- Ethnische Identität
- History
- Massenkultur
- Motion pictures
- Motion pictures -- United States -- History
- Passing
- Passing (Identity)
- Passing (Identity) -- United States
- Popular culture
- Popular culture -- United States
- "Multi-User"
- Race in literature
- Race in motion pictures
- Race in motion pictures
- Race relations
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
- USA
- United States
- United States -- Race relations
- Weiße
- Whites -- Race identity
- Whites -- United States -- Race identity
- Race in literature
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