Armand Aubigny
From Kate Chopin's short story "Desiree's Baby"
In Kate Chopin’s short story, “Desiree’s Baby,” Armand Aubigny is the father ...
Caliban
From “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare
Caliban of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest (1610-1611) is the half human and ...
Sophie Mol
From The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
In the multi-layered novel The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, Sophie Mol is ...
Escalator
From The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
The escalator is an imagined “character” developed from Colson Whitehead’s ...
Lirael
Lirael by Garth Nix
Lirael is half Clayr and half Abhorsen—the Clayr are a race of predominantly women, ...
Spock
From Star Trek by Gene Roddenberry
Sometimes first officer, sometimes captain, but always Mister, the half-Vulcan, half-Human ...
Charles Bon
From Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
Charles Bon is the son of protagonist Thomas Sutpen and Sutpen’s first wife, Eulalia ...
Coleman Silk
From The Human Stain by Philip Roth
Coleman Silk is a Jewish professor who teaches classics at Athena College. After ...
Golden Gray (1st exhibit)
From Jazz by Toni Morrison
Golden Gray is the son of white Vera Louise Gray and black Henry LesTroy. Jazz is ...
Frankenstein’s Creature
From Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley originally published Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus in 1818. ...
Squeak/Mary Agnes
From The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Squeak is a minor character in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, but she is essential, ...
Georges
In "The Mulatto" by Victor Séjour
“Master,” he said…But you know, do you not, that a Negro’s as vile as a dog; ...
Bertha Mason
From Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Bertha Antoinetta Mason is the mysterious and problematic character placed in Rochester’s ...
Golden Gray (2nd exhibit)
From Jazz by Toni Morrison
The majority of Jazz’s narrative takes place in a lower class African American ...
Khan Noonien Singh
From Star Trek: The Original Series
Perhaps the most memorable or well-known villain of Star Trek: The Original Series, ...
Hiro
From Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Stephenson’s character Hiro is half-American Black, half-Korean, and all protagonist. ...
Danny
From Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
In this variation on the Legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, ...
Lila Mae Watson
From The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
It is unclear at the outset as to whether Lila Mae Watson is half-black, or as to ...
Harry Potter
From the Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling,
Harry James Potter holds half-blood status in Rowling’s imagined wizarding world ...
Saleem Sinai
From Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Saleem Sinai is the illegitimate son of William Methwold, a white British officer, ...
Niki
From Kazuo Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills
Niki is the second daughter of the Japanese main character and narrator Etsuko, fathered ...
Tom Driscoll (Valet de Chambre)
From Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson
The character known throughout the text of Puddn’head Wilson as Tom Driscoll, a ...
Unborn Child
From "Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat" by Russell Banks
Russell Banks ends his short story “Black Man and White Woman in a Dark Green Rowboat” ...