"Deeply engaging, well-researched, and effective, "Crossing the Line" is a fine multidisciplinary study not only of passing narratives but of the social, political, and economic struggles that they negotiate in racial terms."-- Priscilla Wald, author of "Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form"

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Race, Passing, and Cultural Representation
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1. Home Again: Racial Negotiations in Modernist African American Passing Narratives
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2. Mezz Mezzrow and the Voluntary Negro Blues
3. Boundaries Lost and Found: Racial Passing and Cinematic Representation, circa 1949
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4. “I’m Through with Passing”: Postpassing Narratives in Black Popular Literary Culture
5. “A Most Disagreeable Mirror”: Reflections on White Identity in Black Like Me
Epilogue: Passing, “Color Blindness,” and Contemporary Discourses of Race and Identity
Notes
Bibliography
Index