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Author Holloway, Karla F. C., 1949-

Title Legal fictions : constituting race, composing literature / Karla FC Holloway.

Publication Info. Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  PS153.B53 H64 2014    Available  ---
Description xv, 158 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-144) and index.
Contents The capital in question -- Imagined liberalism -- Mapping racial reason -- Being in place : landscape, never inscape -- Secondhand tales and hearsay -- Black legibility : "Can I get a witness" -- Trying to read me -- "A novel-like tenor" -- Passing and protection -- A secluded colored neighborhood.
Provenance Gift of Paul and Mary Haas.
Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- African American authors.
African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History.
African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.
History.
Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
Race discrimination -- Law and legislation.
United States.
Race in literature.
Race in literature.
ISBN 9780822355816 (cloth) (alkaline paper)
0822355817 (cloth) (alkaline paper)
9780822355953 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
0822355957 (paperback) (alkaline paper)