{"id":13677,"date":"2011-05-06T21:09:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T21:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=13677"},"modified":"2011-05-06T21:09:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T21:09:38","slug":"exploring-the-%e2%80%9ctragic-mulatto%e2%80%9d-stereotype-through-film-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=13677","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the \u201cTragic Mulatto\u201d Stereotype Through Film History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nssa.us\/journals\/2007-28-1\/2007-28-1-12.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Exploring the \u201cTragic Mulatto\u201d Stereotype Through Film History<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nssa.us\/journals\">National Social Science Journal<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nssa.us\" target=\"_blank\">National Social Science Associaton<\/a><br \/>\nVolume 28, Number 1 (2007)<br \/>\npages 88-91<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:rwvolk@ship.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Robert W. Pineda-Volk<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Considerable attention has been given to the prevalence and persistence of black stereotypes in U. S. culture. Yet one of these identified stereotypes, the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=454\" target=\"_blank\">tragic mulatto<\/a>,\u201d has received relatively cursory attention from scholars and social critics of film and popular culture. In a society historically bent in maintaining rigid social boundaries, this omission is highly problematic. This paper begins to address this shortcoming by examining the construction of this image in popular film and analyzing its political functions and sociological impact in terms of race, gender, and class.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Article Outline<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Birth_of_a_Nation\" target=\"_blank\">The Birth of a Nation<\/a><\/em> and the Rise of the Cinematic Society<\/li>\n<li>The Social Construction of the Tragic Mulatto<\/li>\n<li>Making the \u201cTragic Mulatto\u201d Mulatto<\/li>\n<li>Making the \u201cTragic Mulatto\u201d Female<\/li>\n<li>Making the \u201cTragic Mulatto\u201d Tragic<\/li>\n<li>Discussion\n<ul>\n<li>The Gaze, the Look, and the Other<\/li>\n<li>Tragic Mulattoes and Contemporary Cinema<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Reference<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nssa.us\/journals\/2007-28-1\/2007-28-1-12.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exploring the \u201cTragic Mulatto\u201d Stereotype Through Film History National Social Science Journal National Social Science Associaton Volume 28, Number 1 (2007) pages 88-91 Robert W. Pineda-Volk, Professor of Sociology Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania Considerable attention has been given to the prevalence and persistence of black stereotypes in U. S. culture. Yet one of these identified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8],"tags":[6231,6230,6229],"class_list":["post-13677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-national-social-science-journal","tag-robert-pineda-volk","tag-robert-w-pineda-volk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13677","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=13677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}