Transcending Blackness
Subtitle: from the new millennium Mulatta to the exceptional multiracial
By: Ralina L. Joseph
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780822352778; 9780822352921
Subjects: Racially mixed people; Racism in mass media; Minorities in mass media; Race identity; African American women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Televising the bad race girl : Jennifer Beals, the race card and the punishment of mixed-race Blackness; title: The sad race girl : passing and the new millennium Mulatta in Danzy Senna's Caucasia; title: Transitioning to the exceptional multiracial : escaping tragedy through Black; title: Transcendence in Mixing Nia; title: Recursive racial transformation : selling the exceptional multiracial on America's Next Top Model; title: Racist jokes and the exceptional multiracial, or why transcending Blackness is a terrible proposition.