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Table of Contents: “…Pass of Least Resistance: Sexual Orientation and Race in ZZ Packer's "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" /…”
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Table of Contents: “…The Killing of Philando Castile and the Negation of Black Innocence -- Black Lives Matter and the Social Contract -- James Baldwin and the Repetitions of History: From the Harlem Riots to Ferguson, Baltimore, and BLM -- White Memory and the Psychic Sherpa -- How We Think-or Don't Think-about It: Racial Epistemologies and Ontologies -- Jefferson, the Enlightenment, and the Purposes of History -- Black History: The Master/Slave Dialectic and the Signifying Monkey -- Whiteness in Storytelling: Amistad, the Film and the Novel -- Portraits of Slavery: Faulkner and Morrison -- Lincoln Was a Great American, Lincoln Was a Racist -- Racial Regression: Trump, Obama, and the Legacy of Reconstruction -- The Contemporary White Literary Imagination -- Racial Absence and Racial Presence in Jonathan Franzen and ZZ Packer -- Psychotherapy and a New National Narrative -- Questions of Identity -- James Baldwin: I Am Not Your Negro -- Abandoning Whiteness -- "I Can't Breathe" -- Coda: Daunte Wright.…”

Table of Contents: “…Thinking, Reading, and Writing Like a Writer -- The Extreme Importance of Relevant Detail -- Starting Your Story -- Working with the Elements of Fiction -- Creating Scenes: A Nuts & Bolts Approach -- Organizing Your Story: Form & Structure -- Writing a Compelling Story -- Ending Your Story -- The Power of Clarity -- Revising Your Story -- The Mechanics of Fiction: A Writer's Boot Camp -- A Mini-Anthology: 15 Stories: Sherman Alexie / This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona -- Richard Bausch / Tandolfo the Great -- Kevin Brockmeier / A Fable with Slips of White Paper Spilling from the Pockets -- Percival Everett / The Appropriation of Cultures -- Becky Hagenston / Midnight, Licorice, Shadow -- Barry Hannah / Water Liars -- Jhumpa Lahiri / This Blessed House -- Jill McCorkle / Magic Words -- Lorrie Moore / How to Become a Writer -- Tim O'Brien / On the Rainy River -- ZZ Packer / Drinking Coffee Elsewhere -- Karen Russell / St. …”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Passing at the Intersections ; Passing Truths : Identity-Immersion Journalism and the Experience of Authenticity ; Passing for Tan : Snooki and the Grotesque Reality of Ethnicity ; The Pass of Least Resistance : Sexual Orientation and Race in ZZ Packer's "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" ; Neo-Passing and Dissociative Identities as Affective Strategies in Frankie and Alice ; "A New Type of Human Being" : Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity as Perpetual Passing in Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex -- Afterword : Why Neo Now?.…”
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