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Author:

Elam, Michele.

Title:

The souls of mixed folk : race, politics, and aesthetics in the new millennium / Michele Elam.

Publisher:

Stanford University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xxiii, 277 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.

Subject:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

0804756309 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780804756303 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0804756295 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804756297 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)664258539

LCCN:

2010036789

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)