The Mulatta and the Politics of Race /

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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Zackodnik, Teresa C.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2004.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Women in literature.
Women and literature.
Racism in literature.
Racially mixed people in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Race in literature.
Politics and literature.
Political fiction, American.
American fiction > Women authors.
American fiction > African American authors.
African American women > Intellectual life.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Femmes dans la litterature.
Racisme dans la litterature.
Relations raciales dans la litterature.
Femmes et litterature > États-Unis.
Politique et litterature > États-Unis.
Noires americaines > Vie intellectuelle.
Politique-fiction americaine > Histoire et critique.
Race dans la litterature.
Roman americain > Auteurs noirs americains > Histoire et critique.
Women and literature > United States.
Politics and literature > United States.
Political fiction, American > History and criticism.
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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