Mulattas and Mestizas: Representing Mixed Identities in the Americas, 1850-2000University of Georgia Press, 25 февр. 2010 г. - Всего страниц: 280 In this broadly conceived exploration of how people represent identity in the Americas, Suzanne Bost argues that mixture has been central to the definition of race in the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean since the nineteenth century. Her study is particularly relevant in an era that promotes mixed-race musicians, actors, sports heroes, and supermodels as icons of a "new" America. Bost challenges the popular media's notion that a new millennium has ushered in a radical transformation of American ethnicity; in fact, this paradigm of the "changing" face of America extends throughout American history. Working from literary and historical accounts of mulattas, mestizas, and creoles, Bost analyzes a tradition, dating from the nineteenth century, of theorizing identity in terms of racial and sexual mixture. By examining racial politics in Mexico and the United States; racially mixed female characters in Anglo-American, African American, and Latina narratives; and ideas of mixture in the Caribbean, she ultimately reveals how the fascination with mixture often corresponds to racial segregation, sciences of purity, and white supremacy. The racism at the foundation of many nineteenth-century writings encourages Bost to examine more closely the subtexts of contemporary writings on the "browning" of America. Original and ambitious in scope, Mulattas and Mestizas measures contemporary representations of mixed-race identity in the United States against the history of mixed-race identity in the Americas. It warns us to be cautious of the current, millennial celebration of mixture in popular culture and identity studies, which may, contrary to all appearances, mask persistent racism and nostalgia for purity. |
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... Cliff and the Tragic Mulatta Tradition,” African American Review 32 (winter 1998): 673– 89; “Transgressing Borders: Puerto Rican and Latina Mestizaje,” MELUS 25 (summer 2000): 187–211. This book is dedicated to my grandmothers, Beatrice ...
... and generic strands in this project meet in the contemporary work of Latina, African-American, and Caribbean writers such as Moraga, Lorde, Gloria Anzaldúa, Rosario Ferré, Michelle Cliff, and Ntozake Shange. I will 10 Introduction.
... Cliff, and Ntozake Shange. I will sit- uate the much-celebrated racial and sexual complexity of these works within larger historical traditions. This book returns briefly to the colonial period to examine the histori- cal origins of ...
... Cliff, all of whose portrayals of racial fluidity—both mulatta and mestiza—echo the critically significant Cuban abolitionist novel Cecilia Valdés (1882), by Cirilo Villaverde. Chapter 3 , “ The Transitive Bi- , ” considers Introduction 15.
... Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven ( 1987 ) . The dehumanizing racism that lay at the foundation of many nineteenth - century writings on mixture suggests an urgency for exam- ining more closely the subtexts of contemporary popular writings ...
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Creoles and Color | 88 |
The Transitive Bi | 130 |
Millennial Mixtures | 183 |
Epilogue | 211 |
Notes | 213 |
Bibliography | 241 |
Index | 261 |
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