The souls of mixed folk
Subtitle: race, politics, and aesthetics in the new millennium
By: Michele Elam
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780804756297; 9780804756303
Subjects: African Americans in literature; Race relations in literature; Passing (Identity) in literature; Racially mixed people in literature; History and criticism; American literature; Race in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ( p. 243 -261) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : mixed race in the post-race era; title: The mis-education of mixed race; title: The "ethno-ambiguo hostility syndrome" of the "halfrican American" : mixed race in Aaron Mcgruder's The boondocks and Nate Creekmore's Maintaining; title: Passing in the post-race era : Danzy Senna's Caucasia, Philip Roth's The human stain, and Colson Whitehead's The intuitionist; title: People just like us : Emily Raboteau's The professor's daughter, Danzy Senna's Symptomatic, and the mixed race anti-Bildungsroman; title: "They's mo to bein' black than meets the eye!" : performing mixed race in Dave Chappelle's "The racial draft" and Carl Hancock Rux's Talk.