Introduction : mixed race in the post-race era -- The mis-education of mixed race -- The "ethno-ambiguo hostility syndrome" of the "halfrican American" : mixed race in Aaron Mcgruder's The boondocks and Nate Creekmore's Maintaining -- Passing in the post-race era : Danzy Senna's Caucasia, Philip Roth's The human stain, and Colson Whitehead's The intuitionist -- People just like us : Emily Raboteau's The professor's daughter, Danzy Senna's Symptomatic, and the mixed race anti-Bildungsroman -- "They's mo to bein' black than meets the eye!" : performing mixed race in Dave Chappelle's "The racial draft" and Carl Hancock Rux's Talk