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100	1		_aJones, Suzanne Whitmore.
245	1	0	_aRace mixing : _bSouthern fiction since the Sixties / _cSuzanne W. Jones.
260			_aBaltimore : _bJohns Hopkins University Press, _cc2004.
300			_axii, 346 p. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [327]-334) and index.
505	0		_aWriting race relations since the Civil Rights Movement -- Lost childhoods : Black and white and misread all over -- Dismantling stereotypes : feminist connections/womanist corrections -- Refighting old wars : race, masculinity, and the sense of an ending -- Tabooed romance : love, lies, and the burden of Southern history -- Rethinking the one-drop rule : race and identity -- Still segregated after all these years : place and community.
520			_aPublisher description: In the southern United States, there remains a deep need among both black and white writers to examine the topic of race relations, whether they grew up during segregation or belong to the younger generation that graduated from integrated schools. In Race Mixing, Suzanne Jones offers insightful and provocative readings of contemporary novels, the work of a wide range of writers -- black and white, established and emerging. Their stories explore the possibilities of cross-racial friendships, examine the repressed history of interracial love, reimagine the Civil Rights era through children's eyes, herald the reemergence of the racially mixed character, investigate acts of racial violence, and interrogate both rural and urban racial dynamics. Employing a dynamic model of the relationship between text and context, Jones shows how more than thirty relevant writers -- including Madison Smartt Bell, Larry Brown, Bebe Moore Campbell, Thulani Davis, Ellen Douglas, Ernest Gaines, Josephine Humphreys, Randall Kenan, Reynolds Price, Alice Walker, and Tom Wolfe -- illuminate the complexities of the color line and the problems in defining racial identity today. While an earlier generation of black and white southern writers challenged the mythic unity of southern communities in order to lay bare racial divisions, Jones finds in the novels of contemporary writers a challenge to the mythic sameness within racial communities -- and a broader definition of community and identity. Closely reading these stories about race in America, Race Mixing ultimately points to new ways of thinking about race relations. "We need these fictions," Jones writes, "to help us imagine our way out of the social structures and mind-sets that mythologize the past, fragment individuals, prejudge people, and divide communities." About the Author: Suzanne W. Jones is a professor of English at the University of Richmond and the editor of four books, including Crossing the Color Line: Readings in Black and White, South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture, and Growing Up in the South.
650		0	_aAmerican fiction _zSouthern States _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aAmerican fiction _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
651		0	_aSouthern States _xIntellectual life _y1865-
650		0	_aRacially mixed people in literature.
650		0	_aInterracial marriage in literature.
651		0	_aSouthern States _xIn literature.
650		0	_aRace relations in literature.
650		0	_aMiscegenation in literature.
650		0	_aSex role in literature.
650		0	_aRace in literature.
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