Examining the works of various Harlem Renaissance figures, including painters Archibald Motley and William H. Johnson and writers Nella Larsen and Jessie Fauset, Sherrard-Johnson (English, U. of Wisconsin) explores iconic representations of the mulatta as revelatory of contestations of race, class, gender, and modernity. In particular, she constructs an argument in which the mullata functioned as an ambiguous symbol of racial uplift that ironically served to constrain African-American womanhood. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)