The Mulatta Concubine: Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic

by Lisa Ze Winters

Book Overview

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. In The Mulatta Concubine, Lisa Ze Winters contends that the uniformity of these representations conceals the figure's centrality to the practices...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820353841
• ISBN13: 9780820353845
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"