{"product_id":"crossing-b-l-ack-mixed-race-identity-in-modern-american-fiction-and-culture-9781572339323","title":"Crossing B(l)Ack: Mixed-Race Identity in Modern American Fiction and Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sika Dagbovie-Mullins\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Tennessee Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Tennessee Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - African American \u0026amp; Black\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe past two decades have seen a growing influx of biracial discourse in fiction, memoir, and theory, and since the 2008 election of Barack Obama to the presidency, debates over whether America has entered a \"post-racial\" phase have set the media abuzz. In this penetrating and provocative study, Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins adds a new dimension to this dialogue as she investigates the ways in which various mixed-race writers and public figures have redefined both \"blackness\" and \"whiteness\" by invoking multiple racial identities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Focusing on several key novels--Nella Larsen's Quicksand (1928), Lucinda Roy's Lady Moses (1998), and Danzy Senna's Caucasia (1998)--as well as memoirs by Obama, James McBride, and Rebecca Walker and the personae of singer Mariah Carey and actress Halle Berry, Dagbovie-Mullins challenges conventional claims about biracial identification with a concept she calls \"black-sentient mixed-race identity.\" Whereas some multiracial organizations can diminish blackness by, for example, championing the inclusion of multiple-race options on census forms and similar documents, a black-sentient consciousness stresses a perception rooted in blackness--\"a connection to a black consciousness,\" writes the author, \"that does not overdetermine but still plays a large role in one's racial identification.\" By examining the nuances of this concept through close readings of fiction, memoir, and the public images of mixed-race celebrities, Dagbovie-Mullins demonstrates how a \"black-sentient mixed-race identity reconciles the widening separation between black\/white mixed race and blackness that has been encouraged by contemporary mixed-race politics and popular culture.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A book that promises to spark new debate and thoughtful reconsiderations of an especially timely topic, Crossing B(l)ack recognizes and investigates assertions of a black-centered mixed-race identity that does not divorce a premodern racial identity from a postmodern racial fluidity.","brand":"University of Tennessee Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47598230569111,"sku":"9781572339323","price":3871.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781572339323.webp?v=1775000110","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/crossing-b-l-ack-mixed-race-identity-in-modern-american-fiction-and-culture-9781572339323","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}