WGS160Y1 Lecture : WGS272 Lecture #6

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brownbeetle36

21 Feb 2012

School

UTSG

Department

Women and Gender Studies

Course

WGS160Y1

Professor

Dina Georgis

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Larsen wrote passing during the harlem renaissance of the 1920s and 30s. It was a cultural movement of cultural expression: theatre, literature, music (jazz) It rejected the stereotypes of blackface and minstrel show traditions. Renaissance was a part of an emerging culture of resistance: race riots and challenging jim crowe (equal but separate) Passing is a comment on the plessy vs ferguson decision that maintained racial segregation based on biological trace of race. A lot of black art was for white people. Though race must be distinguished from culture, they often collapse. Though you cannot alter your race, you can identify with and adopt a culture, which does not officially belong to your race. Significant theme in the passing, both of the characters has an identification with the white culture, but only works if you know and learn how to be white.

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