![]() | Mulattas and Mestizas Subjects: Race in literature.; Miscegenation in literature.; Group identity in literature.; Human skin color in literature.; Identity (Psychology) in literature.; Women and literature; Women and literature; Racially mixed women; American literature; Latin American literatur; 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. SUZANNE BOST is an assistant professor of English at Southern Methodist University. |
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