African Americans once passed as whites to escape the pains of
racism. Today's neo-passing has pushed the old idea of passing in
extraordinary new directions. A white author uses an Asian pen
name; heterosexuals live "out" as gay; and, irony of ironies,
whites try to pass as black. Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti
Young present essays that explore practices, performances, and
texts of neo-passing in our supposedly postracial moment. The
authors move from the postracial imagery of Angry Black White Boy
and the issues of sexual orientation and race in ZZ Packer's short
fiction to the politics of Dave Chappelle's skits as a black
President George W. Bush. Together, the works reveal that the
questions raised by neo-passing-questions about performing and
contesting identity in relation to social norms-remain as relevant
today as in the past. Contributors: Derek Adams, Christopher M.
Brown, Martha J. Cutter, Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Michele Elam,
Alisha Gaines, Jennifer Glaser, Allyson Hobbs, Brandon J. Manning,
Loran Marsan, Lara Narcisi, Eden Osucha, Gayle Wald, and Deborah
Elizabeth Whaley
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