{"product_id":"9781496804099","title":"The Possible South: Documentary Film and the Limitations of Biraciality","description":"\u003cp\u003eUsing cultural theory, author R. Bruce Brasell investigates issues surrounding the discursive presentation of the American South as biracial and explores its manifestation in documentary films, including such works as \u003ci\u003eTell about the South\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ebro•ken\/ground\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFamily Name\u003c\/i\u003e. After considering the emergence of the region's biraciality through a consideration of the concepts of racial citizenry and racial performativity, Brasell examines two problems associated with this framework. First, the framework assumes racial purity, and, second, it assumes that two races exist. In other words, biraciality enacts two denials, first, the existence of miscegenation in the region and, second, the existence of other races and ethnicities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrasell considers bodily miscegenation, discussing the racial closet and the southeastern expatriate road film. Then he examines cultural miscegenation through the lens of racial poaching and 1970s southeastern documentaries that use redemptive ethnography. In the subsequent chapters, using specific documentary films, he considers the racial in-betweenness of Spanish-speaking ethnicities (\u003ci\u003eMosquitoes and High Water\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLiving in America\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNuestra Communidad\u003c\/i\u003e), probes issues related to the process of racial negotiation experienced by Asian Americans as they seek a racial position beyond the black and white binary (\u003ci\u003eMississippi Triangle\u003c\/i\u003e), and engages the problem of racial legitimacy confronted by federally non-recognized Native groups as they attempt the same feat (\u003ci\u003eReal Indian\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47130813563120,"sku":"9781496804099","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781496804099_p0.jpg?v=1763666924","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781496804099","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}