In this engaging narrative, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson uses the writings of Nella Larsen and Jessie Fauset as well as the work of artists like Archibald Motley and William H. Johnson to illuminate the centrality of the mulatta by examining a variety of competing arguments about race in the Harlem Renaissance and beyond.
 

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: The Iconography of the Mulatta
Chapter 1. "A Plea for Color": Nella Larsen's Textual Tableaux
¿Chapter 2. Jessie Fauset's New Negro Woman Artist and the Passing Market
¿Chapter 3. "Black Beauty Betrayed": The Modernist Mulaata in Black and White
¿Chapter 4. The Geography of the Mulatta in Jean Toomer's Cane¿
Chapter 5. Redressing the New Negro Woman
Notes
Bibliography
Index