{"id":2928,"date":"2014-05-01T19:13:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T19:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=2928"},"modified":"2014-05-01T19:15:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T19:15:50","slug":"%e2%80%9csplit-at-the-root%e2%80%9d-the-reformation-of-the-mulatto-heroheroine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=2928","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSplit At The Root\u201d: The Reformation of The Mulatto Hero\/Heroine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cSplit At The Root\u201d: The Reformation of The Mulatto Hero\/Heroine<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

AmeriQuests<\/a> (Online)
\nVanderbilt University
\nVolume 6, Number 1<\/a>
\n2008-11-18<\/p>\n

Tia L. Gafford<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies
\nMercer University<\/em><\/p>\n

Frances E. W. Harper\u2019s<\/a> Iola Leroy<\/a><\/em> offers a valuable insight on the development of a holistic and natural model for patriarchy in the 19th century. Harper combines normally diametrically opposed ideologies of masculinity and femininely in the characters of Dr. Frank Latimer and Iola Leroy who become cultural heros\/heroines by embracing a Black consciousness. By addressing what she considers to be a more cohesive productive society, Harper contextualizes the mulatto<\/a> racial and social visions against the backdrop of the post-Reconstruction South. Within this new radical mixed race, Dr. Latimer and Iola Leroy rescues this normative stereotypical version and redefines them as the pre-cursors of Alain Locke\u2019s<\/a> \u201cNew Negro.\u201d<\/strong> By rejecting whiteness as a mean to emancipate themselves out of an otherwise racial bondage, Iola Leroy and Dr. Latimer embrace the \u201cone drop\u201d rule<\/a>. By \u201ccasting themselves\u201d into the racial \u201cpot,\u201d Harper sets the mulatto up to ideally \u201cwork for the people.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cSplit At The Root\u201d: The Reformation of The Mulatto Hero\/Heroine AmeriQuests (Online) Vanderbilt University Volume 6, Number 1 2008-11-18 Tia L. Gafford, Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies Mercer University Frances E. W. Harper\u2019s Iola Leroy offers a valuable insight on the development of a holistic and natural model for patriarchy in the 19th […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,1196,8,20,25],"tags":[1059,7311,330,91,7312,1058,79],"class_list":["post-2928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-alain-locke","tag-ameriquests","tag-frances-e-w-harper","tag-frances-harper","tag-tia-gafford","tag-tia-l-gafford","tag-tragic-mulatto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928","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=2928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}