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Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity
Everybody passes. Not just racial minorities. As Marcia Alesan Dawkins explains, passing has been occurring for millennia, since intercultural and interracial contact began. And with this profound new study, she explores its old limits and new possibilities: from women passing as men and able-bodied persons passing as disabled to black classics professors passing as Jewish and white supremacists passing as white.
Already hailed as a pioneering work in the study of race and culture, Clearly Invisible offers powerful testimony to the fact that individual identities are never fully self-determined—and that race is far more a matter of sociology than of biology.
Already hailed as a pioneering work in the study of race and culture, Clearly Invisible offers powerful testimony to the fact that individual identities are never fully self-determined—and that race is far more a matter of sociology than of biology.
285 pages, Hardcover
First published August 1, 2012
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November 29, 2012
Marcia Dawkins wrote a very informative book that touches on the global issue of passing.A well researched collection that draws parallels on issues of identity and why people choose to assimilate.This book would be a very good guide for any class that focuses on race and cultural identity.Dr Dawkins brings a fresh perspective on a topic that is mostly left hanging.Clearly invisible is a much needed guide in a world that's become more polarized in this modern day and age.I would advise a copy of this book if you have interest in topics of race,culture and identity.
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November 2, 2012Obviously I didn't finish this (is that ever the case with scholarly stuff you get for specific research, and is that ever the case with ILLs?), but what I did read was somewhat interesting. It was less exciting than I hoped, because it didn't provide me with all that much for my research, but I found it intriguing nonetheless and would have wanted to read more had I had time.
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