This dissertation argues that black women’s literature on black-white multiraciality critiques public debates that celebrate the racially ambiguous multiracial child as the solution to racial conflict. Under this framework, this project investigates the popularization of multiracial identity in late 20th and 21st century United States, United Kingdom, and Jamaica, and engages black feminist theorizations of modern sexuality and gender to examine how this literature problematizes narratives of colorblind interracial heterosexuality. This dissertation argues that the works of Natasha Trethewey, Octavia Butler, Danzy Senna, Andrea Levy, Zadie Smith, and Michelle Cliff frame the ideologies of mainstream multiracialism as antiqueer and antiblack, and imagine radically inclusive queer futures that are attentive to white supremacy without replicating colonial violence.

Creator

• Collins, Corrine Esther

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.21985/n2-fcjq-wk02

Subject

• African American studies
• Gender studies
• English literature

Language

• en

Alternate Identifier

• http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14807
• etdadmin_upload_685236

Keyword

• Black British literature
• Queer theory
• Mixed-race literature
• Black feminism
• African diaspora literature
• Critical race theory

Date created

• 2019-01-01

Resource type

• Dissertation

Rights statement

• In Copyright