The mulatta and the politics of race [electronic resource] / Teresa C. Zackodnik.

9781604730579 (ebook) :

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

1 online resource (xxxii, 235 p.) : 1 ill.

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From abolition to 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. This book traces many key instances in which black women have wielded the image of a racially mixed woman to assault the colour line. In the oratory and fiction of black women from the late 1840s to the 1950s, it finds the mulatta to be a metaphor of increasing potency.

Mississippi scholarship online.

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May 03, 2016

Includes bibliographical references and index.