Neither Black Nor White Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature

Rating:
Summary: Excellent exploration of mixed-race literature
Review: This book rescues literature by and about mixed-race (Mulattoes and mixed-whites) people from the myth that they are all exotic varieties of "black." The author also gives us the history of common myths about interracial mixture.

This book should be read with Lawrence Tenzer's "The Forgotten Cause of the Civil War: A New Look at the Slavery Issue" because both books emphasize the importance of the "white slave" in abolitionist literature.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent exploration of mixed-race literature
Review: This book rescues literature by and about mixed-race (Mulattoes and mixed-whites) people from the myth that they are all exotic varieties of "black." The author also gives us the history of common myths about interracial mixture.

This book should be read with Lawrence Tenzer's "The Forgotten Cause of the Civil War: A New Look at the Slavery Issue" because both books emphasize the importance of the "white slave" in abolitionist literature.