The Resource That middle world : race, performance, and the politics of passing, Julia S. Charles
That middle world : race, performance, and the politics of passing, Julia S. Charles
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The item That middle world : race, performance, and the politics of passing, Julia S. Charles represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library.
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- Summary
- In this study of racial passing literature, Julia S. Charles highlights how mixed-race subjects invent cultural spaces for themselves-a place she terms that middle world-and how they, through various performance strategies, make meaning in the interstices between the Black and white worlds. Focusing on the construction and performance of racial identity in works by writers from the antebellum period through Reconstruction, Charles creates a new discourse around racial passing to analyze mixed-race characters' social objectives when crossing into other racialized spaces. To illustrate how this middle world and its attendant performativity still resonates in the present day, Charles connects contemporary figures, television, and film-including Rachel Doleal and her black-passing controversy, the FX show Atlanta, and the musical Show Boat-to a range of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary texts. Charles's work offers a nuanced approach to African American passing literature and examines how mixed-race performers articulated their sense of selfhood and communal belonging
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Isbn
- 9781469659589
- Label
- That middle world : race, performance, and the politics of passing
- Title
- That middle world
- Title remainder
- race, performance, and the politics of passing
- Statement of responsibility
- Julia S. Charles
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In this study of racial passing literature, Julia S. Charles highlights how mixed-race subjects invent cultural spaces for themselves-a place she terms that middle world-and how they, through various performance strategies, make meaning in the interstices between the Black and white worlds. Focusing on the construction and performance of racial identity in works by writers from the antebellum period through Reconstruction, Charles creates a new discourse around racial passing to analyze mixed-race characters' social objectives when crossing into other racialized spaces. To illustrate how this middle world and its attendant performativity still resonates in the present day, Charles connects contemporary figures, television, and film-including Rachel Doleal and her black-passing controversy, the FX show Atlanta, and the musical Show Boat-to a range of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary texts. Charles's work offers a nuanced approach to African American passing literature and examines how mixed-race performers articulated their sense of selfhood and communal belonging
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- Midwest
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- Charles, Julia S
- Dewey number
- 810.9/352996073
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Passing (Identity) in literature
- Racially mixed people in literature
- Race in literature
- American literature
- Racially mixed people
- Race awareness
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- That middle world : race, performance, and the politics of passing, Julia S. Charles
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- online resource
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- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- Content type MARC source
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- Control code
- MWT13281372
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Form of item
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- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Isbn
- 9781469659589
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- Publisher number
- MWT13281372
- Specific material designation
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- Stock number
- 13281372
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- Label
- That middle world : race, performance, and the politics of passing, Julia S. Charles
- Link
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- MWT13281372
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Form of item
-
- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Isbn
- 9781469659589
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- c
- Publisher number
- MWT13281372
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 13281372
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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