{"id":9664,"date":"2011-10-27T03:12:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T03:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=9664"},"modified":"2016-05-23T23:53:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T23:53:33","slug":"black-devils-white-saints-mixed-race-femme-fatales-philippa-schuyler-and-the-soundbites-of-the-sixties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=9664","title":{"rendered":"Black devils, white saints and mixedrace femme fatales: Philippa Schuyler and the winds of change"},"content":{"rendered":"

Black devils, white saints and mixedrace femme fatales: Philippa Schuyler and the winds of change<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Critical Arts<\/a>
\nVolume 25, Issue 3<\/a>\u00a0(2011)
\nSpecial Issue: The Afropessimism Phenomenon
\npages 360-376
\nDOI: 10.1080\/02560046.2011.615140<\/a><\/p>\n

Daniel R. McNeil<\/strong><\/a>, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies
\nNewcastle University, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n

This article sheds new light on abstract definitions of Afropessimism<\/a> by analysing the self-fashioning of Philippa Schuyler<\/a> in southern and central Africa during the Cold War<\/a>. Schuyler had achieved prominence as an African-American child prodigy in the 1930s and 40s, and a peripatetic<\/a> concert pianist in the 1950s, before becoming an ultra-conservative writer who opposed African decolonisation in the 1960s. Rather than relying on the tired clich\u00e9 of the American tragic mulatto<\/a> to explain Schuyler’s existential choices, or limiting the scope of her story to an (Afro)Americocentric frame, this article argues that her virulent anti-black racism threatened purportedly respectable forms of colonial whiteness. In doing so it uses a New Historicist approach to contend that pessimistic positions about resistance can be combined with the study of practices that unveil the ironies and limits of power. In addition, it addresses Frantz Fanon’s<\/a> diagnosis of \u2018the woman of colour and the white man,\u2019 and argues that Fanon’s work in the 1950s and 60s can be used to question Schuyler’s desire to 1) condemn the \u2018force vitale\u2019 of Negritude<\/a>, 2) praise white colonialists and 3) adopt an \u2018off-white\u2019 identity.<\/p>\n

Read or purchase the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Black devils, white saints and mixedrace femme fatales: Philippa Schuyler and the winds of change Critical Arts Volume 25, Issue 3\u00a0(2011) Special Issue: The Afropessimism Phenomenon pages 360-376 DOI: 10.1080\/02560046.2011.615140 Daniel R. McNeil, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies Newcastle University, United Kingdom This article sheds new light on abstract definitions of Afropessimism by analysing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,12,1245,1196,8,25],"tags":[8076,2967,419,1755],"class_list":["post-9664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-biography","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-women","tag-critical-arts","tag-daniel-mcneil","tag-daniel-r-mcneil","tag-philippa-schuyler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664","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=9664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47095,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664\/revisions\/47095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}