{"product_id":"clearly-invisible-marcia-alesan-dawkins-9781481320375","title":"Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity","description":"\u003cp\u003eEverybody passes. Not just racial minorities. As Marcia 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eClearly Invisible\u003c\/i\u003e journeys to sometimes uncomfortable but unfailingly enlightening places as Dawkins retells the contemporary expressions and historical experiences of individuals called passers. Along the way these passers become people--people whose stories sound familiar but take subtle turns to reveal racial and other tensions lurking beneath the surface, people who ultimately expose as much about our culture and society as they conceal about themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth an updated take on the history of passing and a practical account of passing's effects on the rhetoric of multiracial identities, \u003ci\u003eClearly Invisible\u003c\/i\u003e traces passing's legal, political, and literary manifestations, questioning whether passing can be a form of empowerment (even while implying secrecy) and suggesting that passing could be one of the first expressions of multiracial identity in the U.S. as it seeks its own social standing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCertain to be hailed as a pioneering work in the study of race and culture, \u003ci\u003eClearly Invisible\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marcia Alesan Dawkins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1481320378\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781481320375\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Baylor University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 285\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.93lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d","brand":"Marcia Alesan Dawkins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44131927687423,"sku":"9781481320375","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_df984dbf-074a-4983-ac0b-88f267841927.jpg?v=1687477217","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/clearly-invisible-marcia-alesan-dawkins-9781481320375","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}