Explores how the trope of racial passing continues to serve as a touchstone for gauging public beliefs and anxieties about race in this multiracial era.
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Harlem and the Lower East Side are two neighborhoods that evoke not only a rich if contested history, but also a particular racial narrative. Indeed, these spaces one downtown and one uptown on Manhat
Explores how the trope of racial passing continues to serve as a touchstone for gauging public beliefs and anxieties about race in this multiracial era.
Comprehensive analysis of how Harlem and the Lower East Side have been depicted over the course of the twentieth century in African American and Jewish American literature.
