Mulatto

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"Mulatto" is a 1935 play by Langston Hughes that explores race, identity, and family conflict in the Jim Crow American South.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf play
associatedMovement Harlem Renaissance
author Langston Hughes
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
exploresIssue identity conflict
interracial relationships
patriarchy
segregation
violence
featuresCharacterType mixed-race protagonist
firstPerformedInDecade 1930s
genre drama
tragedy
hasForm stage play
hasSubject African Americans in the South
race relations in the United States
literaryPeriod 20th-century American literature
mainTheme family conflict
race
racial identity
racism in the Jim Crow South
originalLanguage English
publicationYear 1935
settingPeriod Jim Crow laws
surface form: Jim Crow era
settingPlace Southern United States
surface form: American South
writer Langston Hughes

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Langston Hughes wrote Mulatto