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Tragic No More: Mixed Race Women and the Nexus of Sex and Celebrity<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Massachusetts Press<\/a>
\nDecember 2012
\n176 pages
\n6 x9; 6 illustrations
\nISBN (paper): 978-1-55849-985-0
\nISBN (cloth): 978-1-55849-984-3<\/p>\n

Caroline A. Streeter<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of English
\nUniversity of California, Los Angeles<\/em><\/p>\n

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A timely exploration of gender and mixed race in American culture<\/em><\/p>\n

This book examines popular representations of biracial women of black and white descent in the United States, focusing on novels, television, music, and film. Although the emphasis is on the 1990s, the historical arc of the study begins in the 1930s. Caroline A. Streeter explores the encounter between what she sees as two dominant narratives that frame the perception of mixed race in America. The first is based on the long-standing historical experience of white supremacy and black subjugation. The second is more recent and involves the post\u2013Civil Rights expansion of interracial marriage and mixed race identities.<\/strong> Streeter analyzes the collision of these two narratives, the cultural anxieties they have triggered, and the role of black\/white women in the simultaneous creation and undoing of racial categories\u2014a charged, ambiguous cycle in American culture.<\/p>\n

Streeter\u2019s subjects include concert pianist Philippa Schuyler<\/a>, Dorothy West\u2019s<\/a> novel The Wedding<\/a><\/em> (in print and on screen), Danzy Senna\u2019s<\/a> novels Caucasia<\/a><\/em> and Symptomatic<\/a><\/em>, and celebrity performing artists Mariah Carey<\/a>, Alicia Keys<\/a>, and Halle Berry<\/a>. She opens with a chapter that examines the layered media response to Essie Mae Washington-Williams<\/a>, Senator Strom Thurmond\u2019s<\/a> biracial daughter. Throughout the book, Streeter engages the work of feminist critics and others who have written on interracial sexuality and marriage, biracial identity, the multiracial movement, and mixed race in cultural studies.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n