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关键词：
Near Black: White-to-Black Passing in American Culture
书目信息
ISBN：
9781558496743
中图分类号：
G1
中文译名：
近黑：美国文化中的从白到黑
作者：
Dreisinger, Baz, 1976-
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出版信息
出版社：
University Of Massachusetts Press
出版地：
AMHERST
出版国：
US
出版年：
2008
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文献信息
关键词：
1. Whites--Race Identity--U.S. 2. Passing (Identity)--U.S.
内容简介：
This book offers a provocative look at the shifting contours of racial identity in America. In the United States, the notion of racial 'passing' is usually associated with blacks and other minorities who seek to present themselves as part of the white majority. Yet, as Baz Dreisinger demonstrates in this fascinating study, another form of this phenomenon also occurs, if less frequently, in American culture: cases in which legally white individuals are imagined, by themselves or by others, as passing for black.In Near Black", 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.As Dreisinger shows, some white-to-black passers pass via self-identification. Jazz musician Mezz Mezzrow, for example, claimed that living among blacks and playing jazz had literally darkened his skin. Others are taken for black by a given community for a period of time. This was the experience of Jewish critic Waldo Frank during his travels with Jean Toomer, as well as that of disc jockey Hoss Allen, master of R"
实体信息
页码：
184
装帧：
Cloth
其它信息
原价：
USD
80.0000