{"id":41321,"date":"2016-02-03T03:32:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T03:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41321"},"modified":"2018-03-24T18:48:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T18:48:07","slug":"the-mulatta-concubine-terror-intimacy-freedom-and-desire-in-the-black-transatlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41321","title":{"rendered":"The Mulatta Concubine: Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mulatta Concubine: Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

University of Georgia Press<\/a>
\n2016-01-15
\n248 pages
\n8 b&w photos
\nTrim size: 6 x 9
\nHardcover ISBN: 978-0-8203-4896-4
\nEbook ISBN: 978-0-8203-4897-1
\nPaper ISBN: 978-0-8203-5384-5<\/p>\n

Lisa Ze Winters<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies
\nWayne State University, Detroit, Michigan<\/em><\/p>\n

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Exploring the geographies, genealogies, and concepts of race and gender of the African diaspora<\/a> produced by the Atlantic slave trade<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Popular and academic representations of the free mulatta<\/a> concubine<\/a> repeatedly depict women of mixed black African and white racial descent as defined by their sexual attachment to white men, and thus they offer evidence of the means to and dimensions of their freedom within Atlantic slave societies. In The Mulatta Concubine<\/em>, Lisa Ze Winters contends that the uniformity of these representations conceals the figure\u2019s centrality to the practices and production of diaspora.<\/p>\n

Beginning with a meditation on what captive black subjects may have seen and remembered when encountering free women of color living in slave ports, the book traces the echo of the free mulatta concubine across the physical and imaginative landscapes of three Atlantic sites: Gor\u00e9e Island<\/a>, New Orleans<\/a>, and Saint Domingue<\/a> (Haiti). Ze Winters mines an archive that includes a 1789 political petition by free men of color, a 1737 letter by a free black mother on behalf of her daughter, antebellum<\/a> newspaper reports, travelers\u2019 narratives, ethnographies, and Haitian Vodou<\/a> iconography. Attentive to the tenuousness of freedom, Ze Winters argues that the concubine figure\u2019s manifestation as both historical subject and African diasporic goddess indicates her centrality to understanding how free and enslaved black subjects performed gender, theorized race and freedom, and produced their own diasporic identities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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