Race Passing and American Individualism by Kathleen Pfeiffer

Race Passing and American Individualism

Kathleen Pfeiffer

180 pages missing pub info (editions)

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In the literature of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, black characters who pass for white embody a paradox. By virtue of the "one drop" rule that long governed the nation's race relations, they are legally black. Yet the color...

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