{"id":45574,"date":"2016-02-08T01:37:30","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T01:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45574"},"modified":"2018-03-24T18:49:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T18:49:19","slug":"the-mulatta-concubine-in-diaspora-is-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45574","title":{"rendered":"The mulatta concubine in diaspora is everywhere."},"content":{"rendered":"

The mulatta<\/a> concubine<\/a> in diaspora is everywhere. She is in representations of Thomas Jefferson\u2019s<\/a> long-term \u201crelationship\u201d with the enslaved Sally Hemings<\/a>, begun when she was fourteen and he forty-four (see Gordon-Reed<\/a>, American<\/em><\/a> Controversy<\/em><\/a>). She is the protagonist who emblemizes Cuban national identity in Cirilo Villaverde\u2019s<\/a> 1882 novel, Cecilia Valdes: Novela de costumbres cubanas<\/a><\/em>. She is allusively present in the fantastical and garish transformation of an enslaved black woman to sexually powerful white (by virtue of makeup) mistress in the Brazilian film Xica!<\/em><\/a> She is remembered as the owner of the infamous maison<\/em> des esclaves<\/em> (house of slaves) on Gor\u00e9e Island<\/a>, the former Senegalese slave entrep\u00f4t<\/a> and now major slavery tour destination. She is the enslaved Joanna, \u201cimmortalized in John Gabriel Stedman\u2019s<\/a> Narrative of Five Years’ Expedition against<\/em><\/a> the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1806 [1796])<\/em><\/a>\u201d (Sharpe, Ghosts<\/em>, 46). She is the commodity that drove the fancy slave trade in the antebellum United States<\/a>. She is present in travelers\u2019 descriptions of antebellum New Orleans\u2019s<\/a> free women of color. She is \u201cthat seductive mulatto woman\u201d in colonial Saint-Domingue<\/a> (Moreau de Saint-M\u00e9ry<\/a>, Civilization<\/em><\/a>, 81-89).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lisa Ze Winters<\/a>, The Mulatta Concubine: Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic<\/em><\/a>, (Athens: Georgia University Press, 2016), 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The mulatta concubine in diaspora is everywhere. She is in representations of Thomas Jefferson\u2019s long-term \u201crelationship\u201d with the enslaved Sally Hemings, begun when she was fourteen and he forty-four (see Gordon-Reed, American Controversy). She is the protagonist who emblemizes Cuban national identity in Cirilo Villaverde\u2019s 1882 novel, Cecilia Valdes: Novela de costumbres cubanas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1219,484,10651,20163,4082,4081,22927,477],"class_list":["post-45574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-annette-gordon-reed","tag-cirilo-villaverde","tag-john-gabriel-stedman","tag-lisa-ze-winters","tag-mederic-louis-elie-moreau-de-saint-mery","tag-moreau-de-saint-mery","tag-sally-hemmings","tag-thomas-jefferson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45574","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=45574"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53772,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45574\/revisions\/53772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}