Mixed-Race Identity in Modern Literature.

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This course will introduce students to the literary trope of the “Tragic Mulatto,” beginning with its inception in the early 1800s. We will explore the convention as it relates not only to literature, but also to the ways in which biracial and multiracial people in the twenty-first century wrestle with issues of identity as they consider the racial categories to which they are assigned and the ways in which those categories influence their cultural interactions.