Elam, Michele.

The souls of mixed folk race, politics, and aesthetics in the new millennium / [electronic resource] : Michele Elam. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011. - xxiii, 227 p., [4] leaves of plates : col. ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : mixed race in the post-race era -- The mis-education of mixed race -- The "ethno-ambiguo hostility syndrome" of the "halfrican American" : mixed race in Aaron Mcgruder's The boondocks and Nate Creekmore's Maintaining -- Passing in the post-race era : Danzy Senna's Caucasia, Philip Roth's The human stain, and Colson Whitehead's The intuitionist -- People just like us : Emily Raboteau's The professor's daughter, Danzy Senna's Symptomatic, and the mixed race anti-Bildungsroman -- "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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780804777308 (electronic bk.)




American literature--History and criticism.--21st century
Racially mixed people in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Race in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Passing (Identity) in literature.


Electronic books.

PS231.R34 / E43 2011

810.9/352905