Hughes published 1934 Mulatto: A Play of the Deep South, 1935 play by Langston Hughes Lost Boundaries, 1940 book by William L. White The Wind From Nowhere, 1943 novel by Oscar Micheaux The Barrier, 1950 opera by Langston Hughes and Jan Meyerowitz African Morning, 1952 short story by Langston Hughes Band of Angels, 1955 novel by Robert Penn Warren To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960 novel by Harper Lee A Soldier's Play, 1981 play by Charles Fuller Devil in a Blue Dress, 1990 novel by Walter Mosley The Human Stain, 2000 novel by Philip Roth Island Beneath the Sea, 2009 novel by Isabel Allende The Vanishing Half, 2020 novel by Britt Bennett Films featuring "tragic mulatto" and "tragic mulatta" characters in pivotal roles The Birth of a Nation (1915) Within Our Gates (1920) The Symbol of the Unconquered (1920) The Virgin of the Seminole (1922) Scar of Shame (1926) The House Behind the Cedars (1927) Veiled Aristocrats (1932) Imitation of Life (1934) Ouanga (1936) God's Step Children (1938) The Betrayal (1948) Angelitos negros, 1948 Lost Boundaries, 1949 Pinky (1949) Il Mulatto, 1950 Italian film released as "Angelo" in the United States Show Boat (1951) Band of Angels (1957) Kings Go Forth (1957) Imitation of Life (1959), remake of the 1934 original (with nonminor changes) Shadows (1959) I Passed for White (1960) Flaming Star (1961) The Black Klansman (1966), a.k.a. I Crossed the Color Line Angelitos negros (1970), remake of the 1948 original A Soldier's Story (1984) Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) The Human Stain (2003) Passing (2021) Television movies and series featuring "tragic mulatto" and "tragic mulatta" characters in pivotal roles Alex Haley's Queen, the acclaimed television series by Alex Haley, offers a subversion of the "tragic mulatta" archetype, while making reference to many of its elements. A Escrava Isaura has been adapted to Brazilian television twice, first in 1976 (as Escrava Isaura), and again in 2004. Angel (the television series) featured a tragic mulatta character (portrayed by Melissa Marsala) in its 2000 episode "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been". The television series, Quincy, M.E. included an episode, entitled, "passing," that subverts the tragic mulatta trope. A female character raised to believe she is white learns that her deceased father was passing all the time she knew him and that she has been mixed-race all of her life. Instead of viewing the news as tragic, she ends the