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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zackodnik, Teresa C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2004.
Series:Black women writers series.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Fixing the Color Line: The Mulatta, American Courts, and the Racial Imaginary; 2. "White Slaves" and Tragic Mulattas: The Antislavery Appeals of Ellen Craft and Sarah Parker Remond; 3. Little Romances and Mulatta Heroines: Passing for a "True Woman" in Frances Harper's Iola Leroy and Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces; 4. Commodified "Blackness" and Performative Possibilities in Jessie Fauset's: The Chinaberry Tree and Nella Larsen's Quicksand.