This book focuses on the mixed-race female slave in literature, arguing that this figure became a symbol for explorations of race and nation - both of which wer

This new collection of essays on American stage and film melodrama assesses the multifarious and contradictory uses to which melodrama has been put in American

Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature examines the popular literary stereotype, the tragic mulatto, from a transnational perspective.

In a world laced with the lethal threads of racism, sexism, classism, and sexual oppression we need a liberating hope that dismantles these intersecting problem

How popular culture helped to create class in nineteenth-century America