{"product_id":"9780253110459","title":"Barriers between Us: Interracial Sex in Nineteenth-Century American Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis provocative book examines the representation of characters of mixed\u003cbr\u003e African and European descent in the works of African American and European American\u003cbr\u003e writers of the 19th century. The importance of mulatto figures as agents of\u003cbr\u003e ideological exchange in the American literary tradition has yet to receive sustained\u003cbr\u003e critical attention. Going beyond Sterling Brown's melodramatic stereotype of the\u003cbr\u003e mulatto as \"tragic figure,\" Cassandra Jackson's close study of nine works\u003cbr\u003e of fiction shows how the mulatto trope reveals the social, cultural, and political\u003cbr\u003e ideas of the period. Jackson uncovers a vigorous discussion in 19th-century fiction\u003cbr\u003e about the role of racial ideology in the creation of an American identity. She\u003cbr\u003e analyzes the themes of race-mixing, the \"mulatto,\" nation building, and\u003cbr\u003e the social fluidity of race (and its imagined biological rigidity) in novels by\u003cbr\u003e James Fenimore Cooper, Richard Hildreth, Lydia Maria Child, Frances E. W. Harper,\u003cbr\u003e Thomas Detter, George Washington Cable, and Charles\u003cbr\u003e Chesnutt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlacks in the Diaspora -- Claude A. Clegg III,\u003cbr\u003e editor\u003cbr\u003eDarlene Clark Hine, David Barry Gaspar, and John McCluskey, founding\u003cbr\u003e editors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47084694765808,"sku":"9780253110459","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780253110459_p0.jpg?v=1763681402","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780253110459","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}