"This rich and fascinating study testifies to the long history of white Americans' ingenious and insatiable envy of blackness."--Barbara Johnson,"Professor Gubar's readings are marvels of precision and insight. This is brillant scholarship of tremendous significance to American Letters."--Toni Morrison"This is an important book for the way it highlights an active but underacknowledged field of cultural inquiry, and a study bound to prompt further debate."--Kirkus"To even envision a post-racist society is contingent upon understanding the offensive, dense, and wildly contradictory nature of our racist past and present. Racechanges should be encouragement enough for readers to begin that task."--Gayle Pemberton, The Washington Post"Susan Gubar's Racechanges is a fascinating study of the fluidity of all of our social identities, especially the supposedly fixed opposition between 'white' and 'black.' Gubar demonstrates that even the most seemingly dissimilar and antagonistic identities are defined through and imbedded in their putative opposites.

Racechanges is a major contribution to cultural criticism and to the literature on the idea of race."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr."The book is best in its chapter on 'Psychopathologies of Black Envy' (5). There Gubar argues that white men's blackface performances register not just homoerotic love and cultural/political/economic theft but also 'an uncanny, different kind of masculinism, an excessively physical masculinity stripped of traditional patriarchal privilege.'"--Signs"The absolute best book on the subject of racial crossing!"--April Householder, University of Maryland"This rich and fascinating study testifies to the long history of white Americans' ingenious and insatiable envy of blackness."--Barbara Johnson,"Professor Gubar's readings are marvels of precision and insight. This is brillant scholarship of tremendous significance to American Letters."--Toni Morrison"This is an important book for the way it highlights an active but underacknowledged field of cultural inquiry, and a study bound to prompt further debate.

"--Kirkus"To even envision a post-racist society is contingent upon understanding the offensive, dense, and wildly contradictory nature of our racist past and present. Racechanges should be encouragement enough for readers to begin that task."--Gayle Pemberton, The Washington Post"Susan Gubar's Racechanges is a fascinating study of the fluidity of all of our social identities, especially the supposedly fixed opposition between 'white' and 'black.' Gubar demonstrates that even the most seemingly dissimilar and antagonistic identities are defined through and imbedded in their putative opposites.Racechanges is a major contribution to cultural criticism and to the literature on the idea of race."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr."[Gubar] is both a careful scholar and an imaginative and lively interpreter of literature and visual media. Bold, persuasive, often surprising, [Racechanges] is certain to prompt much debate about a host of controversial issues that remain, in some circles, unspeakable.

"--Emerge"Susan Gubar's expansive and impressive Racechanges explores and understands the multiple lineages of Tate's wannabe black and wannabe hard subjects more deeply than does any previous study.a provocative analysis of the ways in which evocations of race have enabled and constricted artistic treatments of homoerotic desire.serious and ambitious.this is a terrific book."--The Journal of American History"The book is best in its chapter on 'Psychopathologies of Black Envy' (5). There Gubar argues that white men's blackface performances register not just homoerotic love and cultural/political/economic theft but also 'an uncanny, different kind of masculinism, an excessively physical masculinity stripped of traditional patriarchal privilege.'"--Signs.