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  • Self-made women in a (racist) man’s world: The ‘tragic’ lives of Nella Larsen and Bessie Head

    Self-made women in a (racist) man’s world: The ‘tragic’ lives of Nella Larsen and Bessie Head English Academy Review Volume 25, Issue 1 (May 2008) pages 66-76 DOI: 10.1080/10131750802099490 Diana Mafe, Assistant Professor of English Denison University, Granville, Ohio (Her research aims to situate mixed race studies in a relatively unexplored sub-Saharan African context.) Nella…

  • Mixed-Race Identity Politics in Nella Larsen and Winnifred Eaton (Onoto Watanna)

    Mixed-Race Identity Politics in Nella Larsen and Winnifred Eaton (Onoto Watanna) Ohio University English (Arts and Sciences) Department November 2001 217 pages Advisor: David Dean McWilliams Sachi Nakachi A dissertation presented to the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences of Ohio University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of…

  • Passing

    Passing W. W. Norton & Company September 2007 584 pages 5.2 × 8.4 in Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-97916-9 Nella Larsen Edited by Carla Kaplan, Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature Northeastern University Nella Larsen is a central figure in African American, Modernist, and women’s literature. Larsen’s status as a Harlem Renaissance woman writer was rivaled by…

  • Mixing Race, Mixing Culture: Inter-American Literary Dialogues

    Mixing Race, Mixing Culture: Inter-American Literary Dialogues University of Texas Press 2002 6 x 9 in. 324 pp., 4 photos, 1 chart ISBN: 978-0-292-74348-9 Print-on-demand title Edited by Monika Kaup, Assistant Professor of English University of Washington, Seattle Debra Rosenthal, Assistant Professor of English John Carroll University Over the last five centuries, the story of…

  • Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance

    Of all the images to arise from the Harlem Renaissance, the most thought-provoking were those of the mulatta. For some writers, artists, and filmmakers, these images provided an alternative to the stereotypes of black womanhood and a challenge to the color line. For others, they represented key aspects of modernity and race coding central to…

  • The Mulatta and the Politics of Race

    An analysis of how black women used the mulatta figure to contest racial barriers.