Neither Black Nor White Yet Both
Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature
Werner Sollors
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Why can a "white" woman give birth to a "black" baby, while a "black" woman can never give birth to a "white" baby in the United States? What makes racial "passing" so different from social mobility? Why are interracial and incestuous relations often confused or conflated in literature, making "miscegenation" appear as if it were incest? When did the myth that one can tell a person's race by the moon on their fingernails originate? How did blackness get associated with "the curse of Ham" when the Biblical text makes no reference to skin color at all?
Werner Sollors examines these questions and others in Neither Black Nor White Yet Both , a new and exhaustively researched exploration of "interracial literature.".... continue
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