TY - BOOK AU - Streeter,Caroline A. ED - Project Muse. TI - Tragic no more: mixed-race women and the nexus of sex and celebrity SN - 9781613762257 AV - PS231.R32 S77 2012 U1 - 810.9/3522 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Amherst PB - University of Massachusetts Press KW - Racially mixed women KW - Race identity KW - United States KW - Racially mixed people in motion pictures KW - Racially mixed women in literature KW - Race in literature KW - American literature KW - 21st century KW - History and criticism KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Essie Mae Washington-Williams's secrets and Strom Thurmond's lies -- The wedding's black/white women in prime time -- Sex and femininity in Danzy Senna's novels -- Faking the funk? Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys, and the politics of passing -- From tragedy to triumph: Dorothy Dandridge, Halle Berry, and the search for a Black screen goddess -- High (mulatto) hopes: the rise and fall of Philippa Schuyler -- Afterword UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781613762257/ ER -