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- Title
Passing Strange and post-civil rights blackness.
- Authors
Wald, Gayle
- Abstract
An essay is presented on the significance of passing for black identity in the musical "Passing Strange." It cites the inversion of the idea made by the act of passing for black that implies a movement from disadvantage to social privilege in which sex, gender, and race are tied together for a post civil-rights generation. Furthermore, it points out that the musical asserts the strangeness of identity itself in post-civil rights America.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PASSING (Identity); PASSING Strange (Theatrical production); IDENTITY (Psychology); RACIAL identity of African Americans; CIVIL rights
- Publication
Humanities Research, 2010, Vol 16, Issue 1, p11
- ISSN
1440-0669
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.22459/HR.XVI.01.2010.02