TY - GEN T1 - The mulatta and the politics of race T2 - Black women writers series. A1 - Zackodnik, Teresa C. LA - English PP - Jackson PB - University Press of Mississippi YR - 2004 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_ocm62256857 AB - 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. OP - 235 CN - PS374.R32 Z33 2004eb SN - 9781423732112 SN - 1423732111 SN - 9781604730579 SN - 1604730579 SN - 9781604735543 SN - 1604735546 SN - 9781578066766 SN - 157806676X KW - American fiction : African American authors : History and criticism. KW - Race in literature. KW - American fiction : Women authors : History and criticism. KW - Political fiction, American : History and criticism. KW - African American women : Intellectual life. KW - Politics and literature : United States. KW - Women and literature : United States. KW - Multiracial people in literature. KW - Race relations in literature. KW - Racism in literature. KW - Women in literature. KW - Roman américain : Auteurs noirs américains : Histoire et critique. KW - Race dans la littérature. KW - Politique-fiction américaine : Histoire et critique. KW - Noires américaines : Vie intellectuelle. KW - Politique et littérature : États-Unis. KW - Femmes et littérature : États-Unis. KW - Relations raciales dans la littérature. KW - Racisme dans la littérature. KW - Femmes dans la littérature. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : General. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : African American. KW - African American women : Intellectual life KW - American fiction : African American authors KW - American fiction : Women authors KW - Political fiction, American KW - Politics and literature KW - Race in literature KW - Race relations in literature KW - Multiracial people in literature KW - Racism in literature KW - Women and literature KW - Women in literature KW - United States KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. ER -