Add to ORKGPassing for Free, Passing for Sovereign examines the relationship between narratives of race and gender passing, histories of slavery that these narratives draw upon, and the hetero-nationalist imaginaries that they inform. Much of the scholarship on passing emphasizes the political and affective agency of “passers” to attain social mobility or escape racialized and gendered violence. However, this approach often pre-supposes an individual with autonomous and rational, liberal agency. It also leaves under-examined the accusation of passing itself. In contrast, this dissertation brings to the forefront accusations of passing as techniques of disciplining bodies and regulating populations in order to investigate the political assumptions em...
Historically, the concept of passing has been a site of exploration and engagement with literature a...
The present article centres on Washington Black—a neo-slave narrative whose eponymous hero documents...
This chapter investigates how non-Black people engage with Blackness in the post–civil rights era. A...
This dissertation constructs a vocabulary of passing by examining African American and/or Gay and Le...
This work seeks to examine the concept of passing and the evolution of the term as a construct , in...
The history of the practice of passing for white and racial hybridity in the United States dates to ...
This dissertation addresses how and why popular sovereignty has been invoked to both entrench and co...
In my dissertation, (W)rites of Passing: The Performance of Identity in Fiction and Personal Narrat...
My dissertation, Fugitive Gestures: The persistence of Black meaning and Black life in an anti-Black...
Both African American men and women “passed” for white during the racially volatile decades of the e...
In The Prisms of Passing: Reading beyond the Racial Binary in Twentieth-Century U.S. Passing Narrati...
The dissertation argues that the development of the British abolition movement was based on the abol...
Racial passing appears as a theme in both black- and white-authored American novels from the mid-nin...
In this article, I examine racial narratives of passing and their relationship to discourses of hybr...
This dissertation asks how the end of slavery affected ideas of community belonging and social autho...
Historically, the concept of passing has been a site of exploration and engagement with literature a...
The present article centres on Washington Black—a neo-slave narrative whose eponymous hero documents...
This chapter investigates how non-Black people engage with Blackness in the post–civil rights era. A...
This dissertation constructs a vocabulary of passing by examining African American and/or Gay and Le...
This work seeks to examine the concept of passing and the evolution of the term as a construct , in...
The history of the practice of passing for white and racial hybridity in the United States dates to ...
This dissertation addresses how and why popular sovereignty has been invoked to both entrench and co...
In my dissertation, (W)rites of Passing: The Performance of Identity in Fiction and Personal Narrat...
My dissertation, Fugitive Gestures: The persistence of Black meaning and Black life in an anti-Black...
Both African American men and women “passed” for white during the racially volatile decades of the e...
In The Prisms of Passing: Reading beyond the Racial Binary in Twentieth-Century U.S. Passing Narrati...
The dissertation argues that the development of the British abolition movement was based on the abol...
Racial passing appears as a theme in both black- and white-authored American novels from the mid-nin...
In this article, I examine racial narratives of passing and their relationship to discourses of hybr...
This dissertation asks how the end of slavery affected ideas of community belonging and social autho...
Historically, the concept of passing has been a site of exploration and engagement with literature a...
The present article centres on Washington Black—a neo-slave narrative whose eponymous hero documents...
This chapter investigates how non-Black people engage with Blackness in the post–civil rights era. A...