Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Goggans, Jan Ellyn

Titel

Fashioning Color: Skin-tone Discrimination and Anglo Normative Passing

Ist Teil von

• Make It Work, 2019, p.55-79

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Chapter 4, “Fashioning Color: Skin-tone Discrimination and Anglo-Normative Passing,” focuses on the literary role of skin color and its relation to historical realities that created an American acceptance that darkness was evil. Addressing the hegemony of white skin both politically and aesthetically, the chapter looks at late realism from Willa Cather, modernist era work from Onoto Watanna, Vera Caspary, and Jessie Fauset, and postmodern explorations of color from Toni Morrison. Including sections on the figure of the mulatta, this chapter explores the various literary attempts to pass as white. Drawing on diverse scholarship, this chapter seeks to understand, as Rondilla and others have articulated it, why “lighter is better” (110).