Queering the Color Line

"Queering the Color Line "is a groundbreaking study that sets a new agenda for critical investigations of the intersecting histories of race and sexuality in the United States. Siobhan Somerville provides a model of interdisciplinary, politically engaged scholarship that is certain to become required reading in queer studies, race theory, and U.S. history as well as American literature."--Lisa Duggan, New York University

About the author

Siobhan B. Somerville is Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies at Purdue University.

Summary

Analysing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, the author argues that the emerging understanding of homosexuality depended on the context of the black/white "colour line," the dominant system of racial distinction during the late nineteenth century.

Product details

• Authors: Siobhan B. Somerville, SOMERVILLE, S Somerville, Siobhan B Somerville, Siobhan B. Somerville
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780822324072
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2407-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Series Q; Series Q
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories