WAR 2:

NELLA LARSEN

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KEYWORDS TO CONSIDER IN COMBINATION

+ The Harlem Renaissance

+ racial passing -or- Negro passing (*using the words of the 1920s)

+ color elitism

+ The Black Intelligencia

+ The New Negro Movement

+ The Black Elite

+ The Black Bourgeoisie

+ "social class" -or- social mobility -or- upper middle class Black women

+ gender and Nella Larsen

+ racial discrimination (other terms like colorism, discrimination of skin color/tone)

+ identity and Nella Larsen

+ desire and Passing + Nella Larsen

LIBRARY SOURCES

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AN OVERVIEW OF PASSING

Williams, Tyrone. “Passing by Nella Larsen.” Salem Press Encyclopedia of Literature, 2020. EBSCOhost, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ers&AN=117480116&site=eds-live.

CONTEXTUAL SCHOLARLY WORKS TO START

Huggins, Nathan Irvin. Harlem Renaissance. Oxford University Press, 2007. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=362479&site=eds-live.

The Dangers of White Blacks: mulatto culture, class, and eugenic beauty in the post-emancipation (USA, 1900-1920)1 https://www.scielo.br/j/rbh/a/wfgYWCX6tRdXPwbsx3QXkTb/?format=pdf&lang=en

alternate link: https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/263/26342205008.pdf

Conyers, James E., and T. H. Kennedy. “Negro Passing: To Pass or Not to Pass.” Phylon (1960-), vol. 24, no. 3, 1963, pp. 215–23. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/273393. Accessed 24 Oct. 2023.

Franklin, John Hope. The Color Line : Legacy for the Twenty-First Century. University of Missouri Press, 1993. EBSCOhost, discovery.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=514f3b15-857d-3374-a573-7adfb8e0897d. https://discovery.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=840b52f5-d862-3f98-b752-9a3b6687d9e5

Martin Kilson. Transformation of the African American Intelligentsia, 1880–2012. Harvard University Press, 2014. EBSCOhost, http://discovery.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=f2277f2e-0fc5-3bb1-8af6-8b9f12f541e8. (*look at Chapter 1)

Singleton, Gregory Holmes. “Birth, Rebirth, and the ‘New Negro’ of the 1920s.” Phylon (1960-), vol. 43, no. 1, 1982, pp. 29–45. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/274597. Accessed 14 Feb. 2023. https://www.jstor.org/stable/274597

Appiah, Kwame Anthony. “Race in the Modern World: The Problem of the Color Line.” Foreign Affairs, vol. 94, no. 2, 2015, pp. 1–8. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24483476. Accessed 13 Feb. 2023.

Ayesha K. Hardison. Writing Through Jane Crow : Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature. University of Virginia Press, 2014. EBSCOhost. (this is a pdf of the introduction of this text -- historical period prior to Jane Crow)

Lean’tin L. Bracks, and Jessie Carney Smith. Black Women of the Harlem Renaissance Era. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014. (this is a pdf of the introduction of this text)

Rhodes, Jane. "Pedagogies of Respectability: Race, Media, and Black Womanhood in the Early 20th Century. Souls", vol. 18, no. 2-4, Informa UK Limited, 2016, pp 201-214, DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2016.1230814 (pdf of text)

Dill, Bonnie Thornton. “The Dialectics of Black Womanhood.” Signs, vol. 4, no. 3, 1979, pp. 543–55. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3173400. Accessed 19 Dec. 2024.

Smith, Katharine Capshaw. “Childhood, the Body, and Race Performance: Early 20th-Century Etiquette Books for Black Children.” African American Review, vol. 40, no. 4, 2006, pp. 795–811. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40033754. Accessed 24 Oct. 2023.

Robertson, Stephen, et al. “THIS HARLEM LIFE: BLACK FAMILIES AND EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE 1920S AND 1930S.” Journal of Social History, vol. 44, no. 1, 2010, pp. 97–122. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40802110. Accessed 17 May 2024.

CONTEMPORARY SOURCES

NORTON: Contemporary Coverage of Race and Passing

NORTON: Reviews

(to cite, follow this formula: Author Last Name, First Name. "Title of Essay." Title of Book, edited by Editor Name(s), Publisher, Publication Year, Page Range of Essay

ex. Pierson, Don. “Does it Pay to ‘Pass’?”. Passing, edited by Carla Kaplan, W.W. Norton and Co., 2006, 107-108.)

FOLDING IN LITERARY SCHOLARSHIP

great examples from Gale; sort through the list

Stavney, Anne. “‘Mothers of Tomorrow’: The New Negro Renaissance and the Politics of Maternal Representation.” African American Review, vol. 32, no. 4, 1998, pp. 533–61. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2901236. Accessed 17 May 2024.

Phillip Brian Harper. “Passing for What? Racial Masquerade and the Demands of Upward Mobility.” Callaloo, vol. 21, no. 2, 1998, pp. 381–97. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3299440. Accessed 24 Oct. 2023.

Horton, Merrill. “BLACKNESS, BETRAYAL, AND CHILDHOOD: RACE AND IDENTITY IN NELLA LARSEN’S ‘PASSING.’” CLA Journal, vol. 38, no. 1, 1994, pp. 31–45. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44324945. Accessed 4 Apr. 2023.

Dawahare, Anthony. “The Gold Standard of Racial Identity in Nella Larsen’s ‘Quicksand and Passing.’” Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 52, no. 1, 2006, pp. 22–41. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20479752. Accessed 10 Feb. 2023.

Blackmore, David L. “‘That Unreasonable Restless Feeling’: The Homosexual Subtexts of Nella Larsen’s Passing.” African American Review, vol. 26, no. 3, 1992, pp. 475–84. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3041919. Accessed 10 Feb. 2023.

Blackmer, Corinne E. “The Veils of the Law: Race and Sexuality in Nella Larsen’s Passing.” College Literature, vol. 22, no. 3, 1995, pp. 50–67. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25112208. Accessed 10 Feb. 2023.

Wall, Cheryl A. “Passing for What? Aspects of Identity in Nella Larsen’s Novels.” Black American Literature Forum, vol. 20, no. 1/2, 1986, pp. 97–111. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2904554. Accessed 10 Feb. 2023.

Gillespie, Margaret. "Gender, race and space in Nella Larsen's Passing (1929)." Journal of Research in Gender Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, 2015, p. 279+. Gale Academic OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A439362103/AONE?u=mlin_m_cambsch&sid=AONE&xid=fea186cd. Accessed 24 Aug. 2020.

Jenkins, Candice M. “Decoding Essentialism: Cultural Authenticity and the Black Bourgeoisie in Nella Larsen’s Passing.” MELUS, vol. 30, no. 3, [Oxford University Press, Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS)], 2005, pp. 129–54, http://www.jstor.org/stable/30029776.

Brody, Jennifer DeVere. Clare Kendry's True Colors: Race and Class Conflict in Nella Larsen's Passing. Callaloo, vol. 15, no. 4, 1992, pp. 1053-1065. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2931920. Accessed 24 Aug. 2020.

Wilson, Mary. “‘Working Like a Colored Person’: Race, Service, and Identity in Nella Larsen’s Passing.” Women’s Studies, vol. 42, no. 8, Dec. 2013, pp. 979–1009. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1080/00497878.2013.830541. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=91722123&site=eds-live

H. Jordan Landry. Seeing Black Women Anew through Lesbian Desire in Nella Larsen's Passing. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, vol. 60, no. 1, 2006, pp. 25â52. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4143877. Accessed 24 Aug. 2020.

Wall, Cheryl A. Women of the Harlem Renaissance. Indiana University Press, 1995. EBSCOhost, http://discovery.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=ca205a75-b477-380f-b7af-933d21ced883.

Bland, Sterling Lecater, Jr. "The Secret Life Within: Race, Imagination, and America in Nella Larsen's Passing." South Atlantic Review, vol. 84, no. 2-3, summer-fall 2019, pp. 55+. Gale Academic OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A596317826/AONE?u=mlin_oweb&sid=googleScholar&xid=4d147122. Accessed 4 Apr. 2023.

SCHOLARLY PRINT MATERIALS*

*books located in the library

Black love and the Harlem Renaissance : (the novels of Nella Larsen, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and Zora Neale Hurston) : an essay in African American literary criticism by Portia Boulware Ransom

Gay voices of the Harlem Renaissance by A.B. Christa Schwarz

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