 Malin Pereira argues that Rita Dove's inclusion of miscegenation in "Darker Face Of The Earth" produces the “mulatto” which Pereira identifies as Augustus Newcastle, the child of slave master Amelia Jennings and her slave Hector.The mulatto offspring of the White slave master and the Black slave is also the product of two cultural identities mixing during antebellum south.Pereira also explores the motive of miscegenation between the characters in "Darker Face Of The Earth" by distinguishing the reason for each characters participation that ranges from a simple love to a more complex attraction.