LEADER 02605nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910462879903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-60938-163-7 035 $a(CKB)2670000000340927 035 $a(EBL)1112236 035 $a(OCoLC)831120936 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000905559 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11448413 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000905559 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10926524 035 $a(PQKB)11359081 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1112236 035 $a(OCoLC)828734625 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse25677 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1112236 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10649062 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000340927 100 $a20120801d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe fluency of light$b[electronic resource] $ecoming of age in a theater of black and white /$fAisha Sabatini Sloan 210 $aIowa City, Iowa $cUniversity of Iowa Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (146 p.) 225 1 $aSightline books : the Iowa series in literary nonfiction 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-60938-160-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aContents; Birth of the Cool; Fawlanionese; Fade to White; The Strongman and the Clown; Silencing Cassandra; Resolution in Bearing; White Space; Cicatrization; Notes; Acknowledgments and Permissions 330 $aIn these intertwined essays on art, music, and identity, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, the daughter of African American and Italian American parents, examines the experience of her mixed-race identity. Embracing the far-ranging stimuli of her media-obsessed upbringing, she grasps at news clippings, visual fragments, and lyrics from past and present in order to weave together a world of sense.Art in all forms guides the author toward understanding concepts like blackness, jazz, mortality, riots, space, time, self, and other without falling prey to the myth that all things must exist 410 0$aSightline books. 606 $aRacially mixed people in literature 606 $aIdentity (Psychology) in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aRacially mixed people in literature. 615 0$aIdentity (Psychology) in literature. 676 $a907.2 700 $aSabatini Sloan$b Aisha Elizabeth$0890344 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462879903321 996 $aThe fluency of light$91988938 997 $aUNINA