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Contents Preface: The “Posts” of Passing vii Gayle Wald Acknowledgments xi 1. Introduction: The (Not So) New Face of America 1 Julie Cary Nerad 2. On the Margins of a Movement: Passing in Three Contemporary Memoirs 39 Irina Negrea 3. “A Cousin to Blackness”: Race and Identity in Bliss Broyard’s One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life 69 Lynn Washington and Julie Cary Nerad 4. Can One Really Choose? Passing and Self‑Identification at the Turn of the Twenty‑First Century 95 Jené Schoenfeld 5. Passing in Blackface: The Intimate Drama of Post‑Racialism on Black.White. 123 Eden Osucha 6. Broke Right in Half: Passing of/in Alice Randall’s The Wind Done Gone 149 Julie Cary Nerad vi / Contents 7. Passing for Chicano, Passing for White: Negotiating Filipino American Identity in Brian Ascalon Roley’s American Son 179 Amanda Page 8. Race in the Marketplace: Postmodern Passing and Ali G 203 Ana Cristina Mendes 9. Passing for Black, White, and Jewish: Mixed‑Race Identity in Rebecca Walker and Danzy Senna 229 Lori Harrison‑Kahan 10. Smiling Faces: Chameleon Street, Racial Passing/Performativity, and Film Blackness 255 Michael B. Gillespie 11. Consuming Performances: Race, Media, and the Failure of the Cultural Mulatto in Bamboozled and Erasure 283 Meredith McCarroll Bibliography 307 Contributor Biographies 329 Index 333 ...

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