The mulatta and the politics of race
"The Mulatta and the Politics of Race focuses on the anti-slavery lectures and appearances of Ellen Craft and Sarah Parker Remond, the domestic fiction of Pauline Hopkins and Frances Harper, the Harlem Renaissance novels of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen, and the little-known 1950s texts of Dorothy Lee Dickens and Reba Lee. Throughout, the author discovers the especially valuable and as yet unexplored contributions of these black women and their uses of the mulatta in prose and speech."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2004
University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, ©2004
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xxxii, 235 pages ; 24 cm
9781578066766, 157806676X
53953484
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?