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Mulattas and Mestizas - Representing Mixed Identities in the Americas, 1850-2000 (Paperback, New edition)
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Mulattas and Mestizas - Representing Mixed Identities in the Americas, 1850-2000 (Paperback, New edition)
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Rethinking the boundaries of racial, national, and sexual identity.
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.
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.
General
Imprint: |
University of Georgia Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2005 |
First published: |
September 2005 |
Authors: |
Suzanne Bost
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
280 |
Edition: |
New edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8203-2781-5 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
Ethnic studies >
General
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LSN: |
0-8203-2781-6 |
Barcode: |
9780820327815 |
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