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Racial Consciousness: Passing in The Color of Water Racial Consciousness: Passing in The Color of Water
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Maternal Privacy Is Political Maternal Privacy Is Political
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Color-blindness: Passing in The Human Stain Color-blindness: Passing in The Human Stain
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Self-made Men and Racial Neutral Individualism Self-made Men and Racial Neutral Individualism
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The Return of Maternal Affect and the Death of Black Motherhood The Return of Maternal Affect and the Death of Black Motherhood
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Public Suppression of Personhood: Political Correctness Public Suppression of Personhood: Political Correctness
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Yesterday Is Today: The Racial Time of Skipping a Step between Jim Crow and 1990s Postracial Politics Yesterday Is Today: The Racial Time of Skipping a Step between Jim Crow and 1990s Postracial Politics
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Colorless Stains: Seeing Race through Privacy, Color-blindness, and Love Colorless Stains: Seeing Race through Privacy, Color-blindness, and Love
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4 Ambivalent Outcomes: Blackness and the Return of Racial Passing
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Published:October 2012
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Abstract
This chapter discusses the modernist literary convention of racial passing, which is appropriated at the end of the twentieth century, to access the genealogical turn that resulted in a neutral politics of personhood. It then explores the manner in which the racial discourses of the 1990s—the enforcement of color-blind public policy and the emergent concern of politically correct speech, both with their accompanying cultural politics of racial neutrality—are curiously evoked through the decidedly more anachronistic phenomenon of racial passing. James McBride’s memoir The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother and Philip Roth’s novel The Human Stain (2000) together demonstrate the ambivalent outcomes of a multiracialism that only ostensibly leads to the transcendence of racial consciousness.
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