Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic

Mulatto Devils and Multiracial Messiahs

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

AvDaniel McNeil,USA) McNeil, Daniel (DePaul University

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This is the first book to place the self-fashioning of mixed-race individuals in the context of a Black Atlantic. Drawing on a wide range of sources and a diverse cast of characters – from the diaries, letters, novels and plays of femme fatales in Congo and the United States to the advertisements, dissertations, oral histories and political speeches of Black Power activists in Canada and the United Kingdom – it gives particular attention to the construction of mixed-race femininity and masculinity during the twentieth century. Its broad scope and historical approach provides readers with a timely rejoinder to academics, artists, journalists and politicians who only use the mixed-race label to depict prophets or delinquents as "new" national icons for the twenty-first century.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-12-28
Mått152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt408 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora
Antal sidor186
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780415872263

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'Daniel McNeil illuminates harrowing account and insidious perceptions of mixed-race that exist across Canada, America and Britain.''...fruitful in its exploration of how mixed-race has been and is perceived as a battlefield, without tip-toeing around sensitive issues.''This book will be of primary relevance to academics and students who require a refreshing critical alternative to the lingering racist perceptions of the mixing of races, as well as the multiculturalist normalisation and the "post-racial" consumption of mixed-race identity.'-Zaki Nahaboo, Runnymede Bulletin, Issue 365