Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic

Mulatto Devils and Multiracial Messiahs
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-415-89391-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 304 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McNeil, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. New People? 2. An Individualistic Age? 3. “Je suis métisse" 4. “I. Am. A Light Grey Canadian.” 5. “I’m Black. Not Mixed. Not Canadian. Not African. Just Black” 6. “Yes, We’re All Individuals!” “I’m Not.” Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel McNeil is a Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University and an Honorary Fellow of the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation.