{"id":59162,"date":"2020-05-26T20:26:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T20:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59162"},"modified":"2020-05-26T20:38:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T20:38:59","slug":"imagining-the-mulatta-blackness-in-u-s-and-brazilian-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59162","title":{"rendered":"Imagining the Mulatta: Blackness in U.S. and Brazilian Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imagining the Mulatta: Blackness in U.S. and Brazilian Media<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

University of Illinois Press<\/a>
\nMay 2020
\n288 pages
\n9 color photographs
\n6 x 9 in.
\nCloth ISBN: 978-0-252-04328-4
\nPaper ISBN: 978-0-252-08520-8<\/p>\n

Jasmine Mitchell<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Media Studies
\nState University of New York, Old Westbury<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Mixed-race women and popular culture in Brazil<\/a> and the United States<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Brazil<\/a> markets itself as a racially mixed utopia. The United States<\/a> prefers the term melting pot. Both nations have long used the image of the mulatta<\/a> to push skewed cultural narratives. Highlighting the prevalence of mixed race women of African and European descent, the two countries claim to have perfected racial representation\u2014all the while ignoring the racialization, hypersexualization, and white supremacy that the mulatta narrative creates.<\/p>\n

Jasmine Mitchell investigates the development and exploitation of the mulatta figure in Brazilian and U.S. popular culture. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, she analyzes policy debates and reveals the use of mixed-Black female celebrities as subjects of racial and gendered discussions. Mitchell also unveils the ways the media moralizes about the mulatta figure and uses her as an example of an \u201cacceptable\u201d version of blackness that at once dreams of erasing undesirable blackness while maintaining the qualities that serve as outlets for interracial desire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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