The mulatta and the politics of race
Main Author: | Zackodnik, Teresa C. |
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2004]
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Physical Description: |
xxxii, 235 pages ; 24 cm. |
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Table of Contents:
- Fixing the color line: the mulatta, American courts, and the racial imaginary.
- "White slaves" and tragic mulattas: the antislavery appeals of Ellen Craft and Sarah Parker Remond.
- Little romances and mulatta heroines: passing for a "true woman" in Frances Harper's Iola Leroy and Pauline Hopkins's Contending forces.
- Commodified "blackness" and performance possibilities in Jessie Fauset's The chinaberry tree and Nella Larsen's Quicksand.
- Passing transgressions, excess, and authentic identity in Jessie Fauset's Plum bun and Nella Larsen's Passing.
- Epilogue: The "passing out" of Passing and the mulatta?