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Acknowledgments
Introduction
A Note on the Text
The Text of Passing
Backgrounds and Contexts
REVIEWS
Mary Rennels • “Passing” Is Novel of Longings (April 27, 1929)
Beyond the Color Line (April 28, 1929)
Margaret Cheney Dawson • The Color Line (April 28, 1929)
The Dilemma of Mixed Race: Another Study of Color-line in New York (May 1, 1929)
Alice Dunbar-Nelson • As In a Looking Glass (May 3, 1929)
W. B. Seabrook • Touch of the Tar-brush (May 18, 1929)
Esther Hyman • Passing by Nella Larsen (June 1929)
Aubrey Bowser • The Cat Came Back (June 5, 1929)
Mary Griffin • Novel of Race Consciousness (June 23, 1929)
W. E. B. Du Bois • Passing (July 1929)
Mary Fleming Larabee • Passing (August 1929)
Do They Always Return? (September 28, 1929)
“M. L. H.” • Passing (December 1929)
Passing (December 12, 1929)
CONTEMPORARY COVERAGE OF PASSING AND RACE
When Is a Caucasian Not a Caucasian? (March 2, 1911)
[Publisher’s Preface to the 1912 Edition of Johnson’s Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man]
Writer Says Brazil Has No Color Line (October 1925)
Blood Will Tell (July 24, 1926)
Don Pierson • Does It Pay to “Pass?” (August 20, 1927)
Juanita Ellsworth • White Negroes (May-June 1928)
Lewis Fremont Baldwin • From From Negro to Caucasian, Or How the Ethiopian Is Changing His Skin (1929)
Emilie Hahn • Crossing the Color Line (July 28, 1929)
Caleb Johnson • Crossing the Color Line (August 26, 1931)
Langston Hughes • Passing for White, Passing for Colored, Passing for Negroes Plus (1931)
75,000 Pass in Philadelphia Every Day (December 19, 1931)
Careful Lyncher! He May Be Your Brother (January 21, 1932)
Blonde Girl Was ‘Passing’ (January 23, 1932)
Swedish Negro Baby! (April 28, 1932)
Virginia Is Still Hounding ‘White’ Negroes Who ‘Pass’ (June 29, 1935)
THE RHINELANDER/JONES CASE
Mark J. Madigan • Miscegenation and “the Dicta of Race and Class”: The Rhinelander Case and Nella Larsen’s Passing (1990)
Selected newspaper articles on the case (list pending)
AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND BIOGRAPHY
About Nella Larsen
Miss Nella Larsen Bids for Literary Laurels (May 12, 1928)
Thelma E. Berlack • New Author Unearthed Right Here in Harlem (May 23, 1928)
Mary Rennels • Behind the Backs of Books and Authors (April 13, 1929)
[Letter about Nella Larsen] Jean Blackwell Hutson to Louise Fox (August 1, 1969)
Thadious M. Davis • Nella Larsen’s Harlem Aesthetic (1989)
George Hutchinson • Nella Larsen and the Veil of Race (1997)
Larson on birth, Passing, and death
Davis on birth, Passing, and death
Hutchinson on birth, Passing, and death
Author’s Statements
Nella Larsen Imes, “Author Statement,” 1926
Nella Larsen Imes, Guggenheim Application
[In Defense of Sanctuary]
Letters
To Carl Van Vechten [1925]
To Charles S. Johnson [August 1926]
To Eddie Wasserman
To Eddie Wasserman
To Dorothy Peterson
To Dorothy Peterson
To Dorothy Peterson
To Dorothy Peterson
To Langston Hughes
To Gertrude Stein
To Carl Van Vechten
To Carl Van Vechten
THE TRAGIC MULATTO(A)
Lydia Maria Child • The Quadroons (1842)
Williams Wells Brown• From Clotel (1853)
Frances Harper • From Iola Leroy (1892)
William Dean Howells • From An Imperative Duty (1892 or 83?)
Kate Chopin • The Father of Désirée’s Baby (1893)
Mark Twain • From Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894)
Charles Chesnutt • From The House behind the Cedars (1900)
Georgia Douglass Johnson • The Octoroon (1922)
Countee Cullen • Near White (1925)
Langston Hughes • Mulatto (1927)
Fannie Hurst • From Imitation of Life (1933)
SELECTED WRITINGS ABOUT PASSING
Frank Webb • From The Gairies and Their Friends (1852)
Frances Harper • From Iola Leroy (1892)
Charles Chesnutt • From House behind the Cedars (1900)
James Weldon Johnson • From Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912)
Jessie Redmon Fauset • The Sleeper Wakes (1920)
Countee Cullen • Two Who Crossed a Line (1925)
Walter White • From Flight (1926)
Jessie Redmon Fauset • From Plum Bun (1928)
Rudolph Fisher • From The Walls of Jericho (1928)
George S. Schuyler • From Black No More (1931)
Langston Hughes • Passing (1934)
SELECTED WRITINGS FROM THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr. • The Mulatto to His Critics (1918)
Countee Cullen • Heritage (1925)
W. E. B. Du Bois • Criteria of Negro Art (1926)
Nella Larsen [Pseud. Allen Semi] • Freedom (1926)
George S. Schuyler • The Negro-Art Hokum (1926)
Carl Van Vechten • From Nigger Heaven (1926)
From Negro Womanhood’s Greatest Needs: A Symposium (1927)
Criticism
Nathan Irvin Huggins • [Schizophrenia from Racial Dualism]
Mary Mabel Youman • Nella Larsen’s Passing: A Study in Irony
Claudia Tate • Nella Larsen’s Passing: A Problem of Interpretation
Mary Helen Washington • Nella Larsen: Mystery Woman of the Harlem Renaissance
Cheryl A. Wall • Passing for What? Aspects of Identity in Nella Larsen’s Novels
Deborah E. McDowell • [Black Female Sexuality in Passing]
David L. Blackmore • “That Unreasonable Restless Feeling”: The Homosexual Subtexts of Nella Larsen’s Passing
Jennifer DeVere Brody • Clare Kendry’s “True” Colors: Race and Class Conflict in Nella Larsen’s Passing
Helena Michie • [Differences among Black Women]
Judith Butler • Passing, Queering: Nella Larsen’s Psychoanalytic Challenge
Ann duCille • Passing Fancies
Kate Baldwin • The Recurring Conditions of Nella Larsen’s Passing
Gayle Wald • Passing and Domestic Tragedy
Catherine Rottenberg • Passing: Race, Identification, and Desire
Miriam Thaggert • Racial Etiquette: Nella Larsen’s Passing and the Rhinelander Case
Nella Larsen: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography

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