LEADER 03964nam 22007813u 450 001 9910808784703321 005 20210114013545.0 010 $a1-62103-554-9 010 $a1-282-94079-1 010 $a9786612940798 010 $a1-60473-057-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000061814 035 $a(EBL)619227 035 $a(OCoLC)62256857 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000475378 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12160529 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000475378 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10463336 035 $a(PQKB)11668644 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000206548 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC619227 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000061814 100 $a20130418d2010|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Mulatta and the Politics of Race$b[electronic resource] 210 $aJackson, [Miss.] $cUniversity Press of Mississippi$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (268 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-60473-554-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a5. 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 330 $aFrom 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 606 $aAfrican American women -- Intellectual life 606 $aAmerican fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism 606 $aPolitical fiction, American -- History and criticism 606 $aPolitics and literature -- United States 606 $aRace in literature 606 $aRace relations in literature 606 $aRacially mixed people in literature 606 $aRacism in literature 606 $aWomen and literature -- United States 606 $aWomen in literature 615 4$aAfrican American women -- Intellectual life. 615 4$aAmerican fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism. 615 4$aAmerican fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism. 615 4$aPolitical fiction, American -- History and criticism. 615 4$aPolitics and literature -- United States. 615 4$aRace in literature. 615 4$aRace relations in literature. 615 4$aRacially mixed people in literature. 615 4$aRacism in literature. 615 4$aWomen and literature -- United States. 615 4$aWomen in literature. 676 $a813.009/3552 676 $a813.0093552 700 $aZackodnik$b Teresa C$01629013 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808784703321 996 $aThe Mulatta and the Politics of Race$93966465 997 $aUNINA