Tag: Baylor University Press

  • Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity Baylor University Press February 2016 190 pages 9in x 6in Hardback ISBN: 9781602587342 Sheldon George, Professor of English Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts African American identity is racialized. And this racialized identity has animated and shaped political resistance to racism. Hidden, though, are the psychological…

  • Everybody passes. Not just racial minorities. As Marcia Dawkins explains, passing has been occurring for millennia, since intercultural and interracial contact began. And with this profound new study, she explores its old limits and new possibilities: from women passing as men and able-bodied persons passing as disabled to black classics professors passing as Jewish and…

  • In “Redeeming Mulatto,” Bantum reconciles the particular with the transcendent to account for the world as it is: mixed. He constructs a remarkable new Christological vision of Christ as tragic mulatto—one who confronts the contrived delusions of racial purity and the violence of self-assertion and emerges from a “hybridity” of flesh and spirit, human and…