Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Race and ideology; American mixed-race cinema history; Interrogating terminology; Methodology and frameworks; Mixed-race spaces in French and American cinema; Franco-American narratives and Beur cinema; Summary of chapters; Chapter 1 The Mixed Question; Language, representation and casting; The historical mulatta screen stereotype in America; The historical mulatta screen stereotype in France; Chapter 2 Hollywood's 'Passing' Narratives; 'Passing' representations as ideological construct

The dichotomies of post-war mixed-race women onscreenGender, 'passing' and love; Chapter 3 The Limits of the Classic Hollywood 'Tragic Mulatta'; Imitation of Life (1934): Interrogating mixed identities; Casting and representation; Shadows and the interracial family; Imitation of Life (1959): Gender, difference and voiced rebellion; Performative identities: Sara Jane, Dandridge and Monroe; Chapter 4 Cultural Shifts: New Waves in Racial Representation; Representing 'mixed-race France'; Reimagining the nation: Mixed families; Questioning mixed masculinity: Les Trois frères

Melodrama, motherhood and masks: MétisseRacial-sexual mythology and the interracial family; Chapter 5 Transnational Families in Drôle de Félix; A search for identity on the road*; Citizenship, violence and scopophilia; Trauma and redemption; Destabilizing the primary authority of the father; Reuniting transnational families; Conclusion; 'Post-race' politics in America and France; Enduring stereotypes; Mixed-race sci-fi; Mixed representational potentials; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index