{"id":10162,"date":"2010-11-18T23:12:18","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T23:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=10162"},"modified":"2010-12-03T23:59:17","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T23:59:17","slug":"%e2%80%9cthe-devil-made-the-mulatto%e2%80%9d-race-religion-and-respectability-in-a-black-atlantic-1931-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=10162","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe devil made the mulatto\u201d: Race, religion and respectability in a Black Atlantic, 1931-2005"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe devil made the mulatto\u201d: Race, religion and respectability in a Black Atlantic, 1931-2005<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Toronto
\n2007
\n312 pages
\nPublication Number: AAT NR39517
\nISBN: 9780494395172<\/p>\n

Daniel R. McNeil<\/strong><\/a>, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies
\nNewcastle University, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n

According to The Historical Journal <\/em>there has only been one scholarly study of mixed- race history. This text\u2014New People: Mulattoes and Miscegenation in the United States\u2014<\/em>fails to address events after 1930 in any detail, and ends its historical analysis with a discussion of the mixed-race people who committed themselves to a \u201cNew Negro\u201d group. In an attempt to cover this gap in the academic literature, my dissertation analyses the creative artistry of individuals who were born after 1930 and were told, by governmental agencies in the US, UK and Canada, that they had a Black father and a white mother. My first case study looks at Philippa Schuyler<\/a>, the daughter of George Schuyler<\/a>, the most prominent African American journalist of the early twentieth century. I acknowledge that George Schuyler\u2019s journalistic peers marketed his daughter as a \u201cNegro\u201d child prodigy during the 1930s and 1940s, but I also document how she fashioned herself as a \u201cmulatto<\/a>\u201d writer or a vaguely aristocratic \u201coff-white\u201d femme fatale during the 1950s and 1960s. My second case study looks at Lawrence Hill<\/a>, a writer who grew up in the suburbs of Toronto during the 1950s and 1960s and has achieved a degree of prominence in Canada by casting himself as a middle-class Black \u201crace man\u201d like his African American father, the first director of the Ontario Human Rights Agency<\/a>. Subsequent case studies investigate the legacy of the \u201cBlack is beautiful\u201d movements of the 1960s on a wider variety of individuals\u2014from working-class folks in Nova Scotia<\/a> and Merseyside<\/a> to American idols\u2014and provide further evidence for my argument that a Black identity has been masculinized in opposition to the stigma attached to a \u201cmulatto\u201d identity associated with young \u201cbrown girls\u201d. In doing so, I draw heavily on the work of Otto Rank<\/a>, W.E.B Du Bois<\/a> and Frantz Fanon<\/a>. In particular, I link Rank\u2019s ideas about creative artistry – that it was a masculine attempt to give birth to a new self, community or nation\u2014to the theories of Du Bois and Fanon that defined \u201chonest intellectuals\u201d in a Black Atlantic against mixed-race women and children.<\/p>\n

Purchase the dissertation here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe devil made the mulatto\u201d: Race, religion and respectability in a Black Atlantic, 1931-2005 University of Toronto 2007 312 pages Publication Number: AAT NR39517 ISBN: 9780494395172 Daniel R. McNeil, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies Newcastle University, United Kingdom According to The Historical Journal there has only been one scholarly study of mixed- race history. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,1245,19,838,459,1196,8,10,20],"tags":[2967,419,4455,4457,1568,4456,1755,2373,4458,122],"class_list":["post-10162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-biography","category-canada","category-dissertations","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-uk","category-usa","tag-daniel-mcneil","tag-daniel-r-mcneil","tag-daniel-robert-mcneil","tag-frantz-fanon","tag-lawrence-hill","tag-otto-rank","tag-philippa-schuyler","tag-university-of-toronto","tag-w-e","tag-w-e-b-du-bois"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}