Crossing Black: Mixed-Race Identity in Modern American Fiction and Culture

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Index An Account of the Regular Gradation in Man (White), 14 Africa, 56, 60–61, 135n5 African Americans, 9, 18, 53, 61–62, 130n16 Africana worldview, 60 Alabama, Pace v. (1882), 15 Alcott, Linda, 56 Alexander, Donnell, 11 Ali, Suki, 94 Allen, Theodore, 11 Allure magazine, 2 Alsutany, Evelyn, 111 American Mixed Race: The Culture of Diversity (1995), 19 The American Negro (Thomas), 14 America’s Next Top Model, 122 “Am I Black, White, or In Between?” (Ebony magazine), 101 Andrews, David L., 116 anthologies discussing mixed race, 19, 100. See also specific works “Anti-Essentialism and Intersectionality : Tools to Dismantle the Master’s House” (Grill), 3 Anzaldua, Gloria, 19, 56 Ashe, Bertram, 95–96 Association of Multiethnic Americans (AMEA), 11, 77–78, 101 attractiveness survey, 139n1 Aubry, Gabriel, 119–120 Aubry, Nahla, 119, 120 The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, 21 Azoulay, Katya Gibel, 99 Baniana, Georgiana, 129–30n8 Banks, Tyra, 122 Bardwell, Keith, 121–22 Bassett, Angela, 117 Beatty, Warren, 115, 119 “To Be Real,” 40–41 Berry, Halle: “black enough” v. “not black enough,” 118; black identification , 106; blackness and “mixedness ” alternative representations, 25; black racial loyalty, 115, 119; black-sentient mixed-race identity, 107–8; black woman stereotype manifestations, 119; exotic mixedrace woman, 115, 116; filmography, 116, 138n13; media beauty focus, 118–120n16; mulatta stereotype manifestations, 115–17; as “multiracial heroine,” 107; mystique of mixed race, 119; on Obama, 120; one-drop rule evocation, 105, 106; optimism about multiracial/ multicultural/ future, 120; as racial harmony indicator, 115–16, 120, 138n11; on racial identification as political choice, 115; stereotypes, 115–18; tragic mulatto archetype, 107, 116–17, 138n12 Berzon, Julia, 20 Bhabha, Homi, 52, 88–89 biracial identity, 5, 75–76, 78 Black, Jewish and Interracial: It’s Not the Color of Your Skin, but the Race of Your Kin, and Other Myths of Identity (Azoulay), 99 Index 162 Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self (Walker), 10, 24, 78, 79, 85–94. See also Walker, Rebecca Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk about Race and Identity, 100 The Black Atlantic (Gilroy), 18 black culture as initial “home,” 52, 54 “black enough” v. “not black enough”: Berry, Halle, 118; “cool” character , 11; Moses, Jacinta (Lady Moses), 54–55; Obama, Barack, 8, 9, 130nn12–13; Senna, Danzy, 6; Walker, Rebecca, 90–91 black-Jewish connection: Lee, Birdie (Caucasia), 70–71, 99; McBride, James, 98, 99, 102–3; Moses, Jacinta (Lady Moses), 98, 99; Obama, Barack, 134n12; Walker, Rebecca, 98–99, 102–3 blackness affinity, 123–24 blackness as “cool,” 11 blackness responsibility, 84–85, 98. See also black racial loyalty black racial loyalty: Berry, Halle, 115, 119, 120; Crane, Helga (Quicksand), 33, 34, 40, 127, 134n10; Walker, Rebecca, 92, 93. See also blackness as initial “home”; blackness responsibility black-sentient mixed-race identity: Berry, Halle, 107–8; black consciousness understanding, 10; blackness connections, 78–79; black politics privileging, 84; Carey, Mariah, 107–8; celebrity images, 124–26; Crane, Helga (Quicksand), 32, 38, 44–45; cultural memory, 123–24; explained, 2–4, 5, 20, 129n2, 129n6; focus on pertinent racial issues, 85; framework for mixed-race identity, 38; Jones, Rashida, 125–26; Lee, Birdie (Caucasia ), 68, 69–70, 72–76; McBride, James, 78–79, 81–82, 85; memory and legacy importance, 85–86; Moses, Jacinta (Lady Moses), 59; multilayered racial identity view, 101–3; multiplicity of characteristics , 123; Obama, Barack, 7–8, 78–79; political slant, 99; reliance on the past, 81–82, 90; as visceral, 82; Walker, Rebecca, 78–79, 94 black v. biracial identity, 3, 129n5 “black/white,” 5 Bodies That Matter (Butler), 39 Bogle, Donald, 137n5 border crossing metaphor: Carey, Mariah, 108; Lee, Birdie (Caucasia), 58; Moses, Jacinta (Lady Moses), 58; Obama, Barack, 96; Walker, Rebecca, 87, 88, 91–92, 94 Borderlands/La Frontera (Anzaldua), 19 “border patrolling,” 37 Brady, Owen E., 56 Bratter, Jennifer, 137n5 British blackness experience, 53, 61–62 Brody, Adrian, 118–19 Brooks, Freddie (A Different World), 124, 139n6 Brown, Sterling, 20 Brown, William Wells, 21 Brunsma, David L., 3, 19, 32, 121, 123 Burnin’ Down The House: Home in African American Literature (Prince), 51 Butler, Judith, 39 Butterfield, Stephen, 81 Campanile, Carl, 130n15 “Can Barack Obama Win the Black Vote?,” 6 Cane, 21 Cannon, Nick, 113 Cape Verdeans, 71 Index 163 Carey, Mariah: as biracial “spokesperson ,” 112; blackness and “mixedness ” alternative representations, 25; black-sentient mixed-race identity , 107–8, 114; blondeness, 110; career activity and...