Televising the bad race girl : Jennifer Beals, the race card and the punishment of mixed-race Blackness -- The sad race girl : passing and the new millennium Mulatta in Danzy Senna's Caucasia -- Transitioning to the exceptional multiracial : escaping tragedy through Black -- Transcendence in Mixing Nia -- Recursive racial transformation : selling the exceptional multiracial on America's Next Top Model -- Racist jokes and the exceptional multiracial, or why transcending Blackness is a terrible proposition.