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Passing / by Nella Larsen.
1929
"A light-skinned negro girl successfully passes as white and marries a white man, but her attempts to seek out her own people in Harlem bring tragedy." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation
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- Author
- Larsen, Nella
- Related Name
- Cairns Collection of American Women Writers
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Psychological fiction, American
- African American women—Fiction
- Passing (Identity)—Fiction
- Multiracial people—Fiction
- Female friendship—Fiction
- African Americans—Race identity—Fiction
- United States—Race relations—Fiction
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)—Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Contemporary bindings
- Publishers' cloth bindings
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Item Summary
"A light-skinned negro girl successfully passes as white and marries a white man, but her attempts to seek out her own people in Harlem bring tragedy." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation
Descriptive Information
- Title
- Passing / by Nella Larsen.
- Call Number
- N-003486
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/dcgt54m1104
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- 1929
- Extent
- 10 unnumbered pages, 215 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm
- References
- Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation, 2096
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Title page printed in black and brown.
- Half-title.
- "Set up, electrotyped, printed, and bound by The Vail-Ballou Press, Binghamton, N.Y. Paper made by W.C. Hamilton & Sons, Miquon, Pa."--Colophon
- Colophon on final unnumbered page.
- Binding: publisher's cloth; black; stamped in orange and silver on front cover and spine; top edge trimmed and stained orange.
- Binding Note
- Princeton copy 1 Bound in publisher's original black cloth ruled in red with silver lettering. Lacking the dust jacket, though a clipped portion of the front flap is present and laid in.
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Psychological fiction, American
- African American women—Fiction
- Passing (Identity)—Fiction
- Multiracial people—Fiction
- Female friendship—Fiction
- African Americans—Race identity—Fiction
- United States—Race relations—Fiction
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)—Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Contemporary bindings
- Publishers' cloth bindings
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 240
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Public Domain Digitization Initiative
- Black History and Culture Evergreen Initiative
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/8b03ddef-e152-45ac-84af-b1af8edc4c93/manifest