Imagining the Mulatta: Blackness in U.S. and Brazilian Media

by Jasmine Mitchell

Brazil markets itself as a racially mixed utopia. The United States prefers the term melting pot. Both nations have long used the image of the mulatta 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--all the while ignoring the racialization, hypersexualization, and white supremacy that the mulatta narrative creates...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252043286
• ISBN13: 9780252043284
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"