1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991002560279707536

Autore

Silverstone, Roger

Titolo

Televisione e vita quotidiana / Roger Silverstone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bologna : Il Mulino, c2000 (stampa 2003)

ISBN

8815062882

Descrizione fisica

326 p. ; 22 cm

Collana

Saggi [Il Mulino] ; 512

Disciplina

302.2345

Soggetti

Sociologia dei media

Televisione - Aspetti sociali

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785308003321

Autore

Zackodnik Teresa C

Titolo

The Mulatta and the Politics of Race [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, [Miss.], : University Press of Mississippi, 2004

ISBN

1-62103-554-9

1-282-94079-1

9786612940798

1-60473-057-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Disciplina

813.009/3552

813.0093552

Soggetti

African American women -- Intellectual life

American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism

American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism

Political fiction, American -- History and criticism

Politics and literature -- United States

Race in literature

Race relations in literature

Racially mixed people in literature

Racism in literature



Women and literature -- United States

Women in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

5. 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?; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 1840's through the 1950's, Teresa C. Zackodnik finds the mulatta to be a metaphor of increasing potency. Before the Civil War white female abolitionists created