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mulatta

(mjuːˈlætə)
n
(Peoples) a woman of mixed race having one Black and one White parent
adj
(Peoples) having one Black and one White parent
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The image of the mulatta in the cottage is presented, and then twice revised in Clotel; the basic trope occurs with the quadroon protagonist, Clotel, for whom the work is named.
The trope of the mulatta woman in the cottage in nineteenth-century African American literature
Cuban visual arts, ranging from paintings to tattooing to underground "happenings", is caught between state censorship and the demands of the global art market, where buyers are mostly interested in fetishizing Cuban exotica, whether it's the "hot mulatta" or Afro-Cuban religion.
Fernandes, Sujatha. Cuba Represent! Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures
Ralina Joseph examines the highly successful first memoir of Rebecca Walker, daughter of Alice Walker and Mel Leventhal, uncovering the ways in which the media stereotype of the "tragic mulatta" continues to frame the writer's perceptions as well as her experiences.
Introduction to "the politics of biracialism"
Estudios sobre la anatomia macroscopica de los primates del Nuevo Mundo son escasos en comparacion con los existentes sobre monos del Viejo Mundo, especialmente sobre la anatomia del mono Rhesus Macaca mulatta (Bast et al., 1961).
Anatomia macroscopica de la musculatura del miembro anterior del mono Machin Blanco (Cebus albifrons)
The novel's predominant figure of assimilation is the title character, a light-skinned and beautiful slave whose suicide has prompted most scholars to locate the novel within the genre of the tragic mulatta, an area of scholarship that Hortense Spillers warns is often "anachronistic and irrelevant to African American critical projects at the moment" (301).
The case against Whiteness in William Wells Brown's Clotel
She successfully complicates the iconography of what was referred to as the "mulatta" by examining representations of the figure in the works of many authors (including Nella Larsen, Jessie Fauset, and Jean Toomer), painters (Archibald J.
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson. Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance
mulatta sequences seemed to have diverged from a single common ancestor in recent past.
Characterization & evolutionary analysis of human CD36 gene
mulatta e Alouatta pigra (MAJEWSKA & KASPRZAK, 2000; SESTAK et al., 2003; ITAGAKI et al., 2005; VITAZKOVA & WADE, 2006).
Ocorrencia de protozoarios gastrintestinais em primatas mantidos em cativeiro na regiao sul do Brasil
mulatta) that we included in our study (see above), we aligned the amino acid sequences of this gene in all three taxa to locate variations in amino acid sequences (Table 2).
Genetic characterization and evolutionary inference of TNF-[alpha] through computational analysis
In her novel, an unusual occurrence launches a murder mystery investigated by a fledgling young journalist, who falls passionately in love with a one-armed mulatta. He also harbors erotic feelings for his best friend's mother, whom he remembers seeing slow-dance the almendra with a mysterious man--who turns out to be the mafia figure Meyer Lansky.
Passion on the page: whether set in Cuba or Haiti or Puerto Rico, Mayra Montero's novels depict characters consumed by anxiety, loss, and desire
Some of the Macaca mulatta monkeys have grown so big feasting on food thrown to them by zoo visitors that they find it hard to move around their 420 square meter enclosure.
WHO'RE YOU CALLING A CHUNKY MONKEY?
Dentofacial remodeling produced by intermaxillary forces on Macaca mulatta. Arch Oral Biol 1972; 17:1519-1535.
Relacion esqueletica en la Clase II de Angle con crecimiento vertical por rotacion posterior de la mandibula. Tratamiento con casquete extraoral de traccion alta y placa acrilica maxilar. Observaciones Clinicas y Reporte de un caso

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