COVER
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Contents
Foreword: Passing and “Post-Race” / Gayle Wald
Acknowledgments / Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young
Introduction: The Neo-Passing Narrative / Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young
Appendix to the Introduction: Neo-Passing Narratives: Teaching and Scholarly Resources
PART I: NEW HISTORIES
Introduction: Passing at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
1. Why Passing Is (Still) Not Passé after More Than 250 Years Sources from the Past and Present
2. Passing for Postracial Colorblind Reading Practices of Zombies, Sheriffs, and Slaveholders
3. Adam Mansbach’s Postracial Imaginary in Angry Black White Boy
4. Black President Bush The Racial and Gender Politics behind Dave Chappelle’s Presidential Drag
5. Seeing Race in Comics Passing, Witness, and the Spectacle of Racial Violence in Johnson and Pleece's Incognegro
PART II: NEW IDENTITIES
Introduction: Passing at the Intersections
6. Passing Truths: Identity-Immersion Journalism and the Experience of Authenticity
7. Passing for Tan: Snooki and the Grotesque Reality of Ethnicity
8. The Pass of Least Resistance Sexual Orientation and Race in ZZ Packer’s “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere"
9. Neo-Passing and Dissociative Identities as Affective Strategies in Frankie and Alice
10. “A New Type of Human Being” Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity as Perpetual Passing in Jeffrey Eugenide's Middlesex
Afterword: Why Neo Now?
Contributors
Index