Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic

<p>This is the first book to place the self-fashioning of mixed-race individuals in the context of a Black Atlantic. Drawing on a wide range of sources and a diverse cast of characters – from the diaries letters novels and plays of femme fatales in Congo and the United States to the advertisements dissertations oral histories and political speeches of Black Power activists in Canada and the United Kingdom – it gives particular attention to the construction of mixed-race femininity and masculinity during the twentieth century. Its broad scope and historical approach provides readers with a timely rejoinder to academics artists journalists and politicians who only use the mixed-race label to depict prophets or delinquents as new national icons for the twenty-first century. </p>