03964nam 22007813u 450 991078530800332120210114013545.01-62103-554-91-282-94079-197866129407981-60473-057-9(CKB)2670000000061814(EBL)619227(OCoLC)62256857(SSID)ssj0000475378(PQKBManifestationID)12160529(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000475378(PQKBWorkID)10463336(PQKB)11668644(StDuBDS)EDZ0000206548(MiAaPQ)EBC619227(EXLCZ)99267000000006181420130418d2010|||| u|| |engtxtccrThe Mulatta and the Politics of Race[electronic resource]Jackson, [Miss.] University Press of Mississippi20041 online resource (268 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-60473-554-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Quicksand5. 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; IndexFrom 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 createdAfrican American women -- Intellectual lifeAmerican fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticismAmerican fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticismPolitical fiction, American -- History and criticismPolitics and literature -- United StatesRace in literatureRace relations in literatureRacially mixed people in literatureRacism in literatureWomen and literature -- United StatesWomen in literatureAfrican 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.813.009/3552813.0093552Zackodnik Teresa C1467960AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910785308003321The Mulatta and the Politics of Race3678860UNINA