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1006014
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b760384
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Zackodnik, Teresa C.
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The mulatta and the politics of race /\ Teresa C. Zackodnik.
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| Publication Statement
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Jackson :: University Press of Mississippi,, ©2004.
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| Series Statement
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Black women writers
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1 online resource (xxxii, 235 pages)
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| ISBN
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1423732111
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: 1604730579
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: 9781423732112
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157806676X
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9781578066766
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-227) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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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 1840s through the 1950s, Teresa C. Zackodnik finds the mulatta to be a metaphor of increasing potency. Before the Civil War white female abolitionists created th.
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African American women-- Intellectual life.
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American fiction-- African American authors-- History and criticism.
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American fiction-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
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Political fiction, American-- History and criticism.
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Politics and literature-- United States.
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Race in literature.
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Race relations in literature.
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Racially mixed people in literature.
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Racism in literature.
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Women and literature-- United States.
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Women in literature.
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African American women-- Intellectual life.
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American fiction-- African American authors.
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American fiction-- Women authors.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- African American.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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Political fiction, American.
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Politics and literature.
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Race in literature.
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Race relations in literature.
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Racially mixed people in literature.
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Racism in literature.
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Women and literature.
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Women in literature.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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813.009/3552
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| LC Classification
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PS374.R32Z33 2004eb
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