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The Resource The mulatta concubine : terror, intimacy, freedom, and desire in the Black transatlantic, Lisa Ze Winters, (electronic resource)

The mulatta concubine : terror, intimacy, freedom, and desire in the Black transatlantic, Lisa Ze Winters, (electronic resource)

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Popular and academic representations of the free mulatta concubine 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. InThe Mulatta Concubine, Lisa Ze Winters contends that the uniformity of these representations conceals the figure's centrality to the practices and production of diaspora. 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: Gorée Island, New Orleans, and Saint Domingue (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 newspaper reports, travelers' narratives, ethnographies, and Haitian Vodou iconography. Attentive to the tenuousness of freedom, Ze Winters argues that the concubine figure's 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.--
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The mulatta concubine : terror, intimacy, freedom, and desire in the Black transatlantic
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The mulatta concubine
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terror, intimacy, freedom, and desire in the Black transatlantic
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Lisa Ze Winters
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Language
eng
Summary
Popular and academic representations of the free mulatta concubine 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. InThe Mulatta Concubine, Lisa Ze Winters contends that the uniformity of these representations conceals the figure's centrality to the practices and production of diaspora. 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: Gorée Island, New Orleans, and Saint Domingue (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 newspaper reports, travelers' narratives, ethnographies, and Haitian Vodou iconography. Attentive to the tenuousness of freedom, Ze Winters argues that the concubine figure's 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.--
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Winters, Lisa Ze,
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non fiction
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  • bibliography
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  • Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900
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  • Racially mixed women
  • Racially mixed women
  • Free African Americans
  • African American women
  • Blacks
  • African diaspora
  • Atlantic Ocean Region
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The mulatta concubine : terror, intimacy, freedom, and desire in the Black transatlantic, Lisa Ze Winters, (electronic resource)
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https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt189tsb2
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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online resource
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ocn937451149
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unknown
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1 online resource
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online
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9780820348971
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computer
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rdamedia
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  • c
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remote
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(OCoLC)937451149
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The mulatta concubine : terror, intimacy, freedom, and desire in the Black transatlantic, Lisa Ze Winters, (electronic resource)
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt189tsb2
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
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  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
ocn937451149
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780820348971
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)937451149

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