To Be Suddenly White
Subtitle: Literary Realism And Racial Passing
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: March 27, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780826216199
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Sociology; History and criticism; American prose literature; Social Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; USA; American - General; United States; American - African American; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; African American authors; Biography; Minorities; Minority authors
First sentence: The flourishing of whiteness studies in the 1990s, due particularly to its focus upon European immigration, provides much of the justification for the present study because it helps us understand what is at stake in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century literary discourses of assimilation.