Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-164) and index.
Contents
"The nice one ... and the other one" : the discourse of race and color -- The beautiful mulata and the invisible Black woman -- Out of the literary wilderness : redeeming the Black woman -- Sexual myths and national icons -- Disgust and desire : the politics of interracial sex -- Miscegenation, hybridity, and the nation -- From voiceless object to human subject : filling the historical vacuum -- The Black matriarch in the closet -- Psychosocial dilemmas -- The sexual myth deconstructed -- Rescuing the slave woman -- Tragic mammies and passive workhorses -- The Black woman and the Cuban Revolution.