Mulattas and Mestizas: Representing Mixed Identities in the by Suzanne Bost
By Suzanne Bost
Working from literary and historic bills of mulattas, mestizas, and creoles, Bost analyzes a practice, relationship from the 19th century, of theorizing identification when it comes to racial and sexual combination. via studying racial politics in Mexico and the us; racially combined girl characters in Anglo-American, African American, and Latina narratives; and concepts of blend within the Caribbean, she finally finds how the fascination with blend usually corresponds to racial segregation, sciences of purity, and white supremacy. The racism on the starting place of many nineteenth-century writings encourages Bost to check extra heavily the subtexts of up to date writings at the "browning" of America.
Original and impressive in scope, Mulattas and Mestizas measures modern representations of mixed-race identification within the usa opposed to the historical past of mixed-race id within the Americas. It warns us to be careful of the present, millennial party of mix in pop culture and id experiences, that could, opposite to all appearances, masks continual racism and nostalgia for purity.
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