Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: None, Claremont Graduate University, 233 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This work will reflect on the mutability of meaning in the female mulatto body as well as on the mutability of perception by acknowledging the erroneous nature of race and its concrete results, by examining the valorization and undermining of racial essentialism and heterogeneity, and by revealing passing as bound by the social and legal restraints related to the physical body even as it...