When reading The Passing by Nella Larsen and watching the movie adaptation directed by Rebecca Hall, I’ve always felt that I’ve been on the outside looking in. Through the two main characters Irene and Clare, we have seen blackness presented in two different lights. Blackness isn’t all about the shade of a person’s skin tone… Continue reading Passing Through (Blog Post 5)
When first reading Nella Larson’s Passing (1929) the piece can seem to be about the conflicted emotions of light-skinned black women who pass for being white when in the presence of majority-white people. Taking a deeper look into the text you can see that the relationship between Irene and her friend Clare there is more… Continue reading Sexuality Hidden In Plain Sight
What I find so compelling about both the novel and film versions of Passing is its ability to complicate the dominant narrative about what Blackness was in the early 20th century, and what it continues to be today. While race was and is the dominant lens that which Black people are viewed through in the… Continue reading Race and Class at a Crossroads in “Passing”
After an exhausting period of oppression from their captors from 1886 to 1910, newly emancipated negros traveled to Harlem and transitioned into New Negros. Following years of bondage and the inability to exercise the rights that their forefathers created, they were granted these rights. The New Negro’s voice is free, and the New Negro learns… Continue reading Overview Post (500 word draft)
Within the Black community, there are interconnected social struggles or forms of discrimination known as intersectionality. Although this is a new term, intersectionality has been an issue in the Black community since the Harlem Renaissance. According to Kimberle Crenshaw, creator of the term, intersectionality acknowledges the unique experiences of discrimination and privilege people go through.… Continue reading Intersectionality in Harlem
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There has been a similar focus throughout the readings about the act of gazing. Many instances of protagonists actively engaging in looking at the subject of their interest, that focus usually being applied toward another person. The gaze is often synonymous with want, longing, yearning for something. In a number of the texts we have… Continue reading Beyond The Gaze
Throughout these readings, the gaze and one’s perception and awareness of other individuals is a prominent theme. In the story of “Cordelia the Crude”, Cordelia is a young and promiscuous girl with the potential of being a prostitute and no more than that. She doesn’t work or go to school, and she spends her nights… Continue reading Blog Post #5 Final Draft
Passing , Nella Larsen Reading the book Passing really put things in perspective for me a lot of passages in the book really stuck out among reading the novel. Although The film adaptation of the novel is fairly it does not grasp the different themes of the novel to justice. In the novel we… Continue reading “Instinct of the race to survive and expand.” Inside the mind of The New Negro
Looking through these texts such as “Passing” in 1929 written by Nella Larson, gazing or looking at “the other” is central. Although when it comes to gazing it is shown in a different variety of ways. Two of the ways I would like to speak on and emphasize on are colorism and passing and how… Continue reading Gazing on Colorism and Passing