The mulatta and the politics of race

The mulatta and the politics of race / Teresa C. Zackodnik.

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
Main Author: Zackodnik, Teresa C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2004.
Series:Black women writers series.
Subjects:
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
Race in literature.
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Political fiction, American > History and criticism.
African American women > Intellectual life.
Politics and literature > United States.
Women and literature > United States.
Racially mixed people in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Racism in literature.
Women in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
African American women > Intellectual life
American fiction > African American authors
American fiction > Women authors
Political fiction, American
Politics and literature
Race in literature
Race relations in literature
Racially mixed people in literature
Racism in literature
Women and literature
Women in literature
United States
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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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.

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