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The mulatta and the politics of race /
From abolition through the years just before the civil rights struggle began, African American women recognized that a mixed-race woman made for a powerful and, at times, very useful figure in the battle for racial justice. The Mulatta and the Politics of Race traces many key instances in which blac...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
©2004.
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| Colección: | Black women writers series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | From abolition through the years just before the civil rights struggle began, African American women recognized that a mixed-race woman made for a powerful and, at times, very useful figure in the battle for racial justice. The Mulatta and the Politics of Race traces many key instances in which black women have wielded the image of a racially mixed woman to assault the color line. In the oratory and fiction of black women from the late 1840s through the 1950s, Teresa C. Zackodnik finds the mulatta to be a metaphor of increasing potency. Before the Civil War white female abolitionists created th. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxxii, 235 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-227) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781423732112 1423732111 9781604730579 1604730579 9781604735543 1604735546 |