being so. It is believed that she is of Greek or Spanish descent. She has suffered little hardship in her life, but upon the revelation that she is mixed race, loses her social standing. A woman who has all the social graces that come along with being a middle-class or upper-class white woman is nonetheless subjected to slavery. A common objection to this character is that she allows readers to pity the plight of oppressed or enslaved races, but only through a veil of whiteness—that is, instead of sympathizing with a true racial "other", one is sympathizing with a character who is made as much like one's own race as possible. In popular culture Literature featuring "tragic mulatto" and "tragic mulatta" characters in pivotal roles Le Mulâtre 1837 (French) Sab by Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, 1841. The Quadroons, 1842 short story by Lydia Maria Child (introduced the literary character of the tragic mulatto) Slavery's Pleasant Homes, 1843 short story by Lydia Maria Child Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe (published serially 1851–1852) Clotel; or, The President's Daughter, 1853 novel by William Wells Brown The Garies and Their Friends, 1857 novel by Frank J. Webb The Octoroon (Life in Louisiana) 1859 play, by Dion Bocicault A Escrava Isaura, 1875 novel by Brazilian author Bernardo Guimarães Iola Leroy, 1892 novel by Frances Harper Désirée's Baby, 1893 short story by Kate Chopin Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894 novel by Mark Twain The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color-Line by Charles W. Chesnutt (1899) The House Behind the Cedars, 1900 novel by Charles W. Chesnutt "Talma Gordon," 1900 short story by Pauline Hopkins The Marrow of Tradition, 1901 novel by Charles W. Chesnutt The Clansman, 1905 novel by Thomas Dixon, Jr. (the source material for D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation). Summer, novel by Edith Wharton published in 1917 "Cross", poem by Langston Hughes published 1925 Show Boat, 1926 novel by Edna Ferber (also the source material for the 1927 stage musical). "Mulatto", poem by Langston Hughes published 1927 The White Girl, 1929 novel by Vara Caspary Passing, 1929 novel by Nella Larsen Dark Lustre, 1932 novel by Geoffrey Barnes Light in August, 1932 novel by William Faulkner Imitation of Life, 1933 novel by Fannie Hurst (source material for the 1934 film and its 1959 remake) "Father and Son", short story by Langston