The Color of Sex - Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy

"An engaging and well written exploration of nineteenth-century 'fictions' of white supremacy that manages to combine wit and erudition."--Gayle Wald, author of "Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in Twentieth Century U.S. Literature and Culture"

Sommario

Acknowledgments

Introduction: White Fictions

1. “De White Man in Season”

2. Sympathy and Symmetry: The Romance of Slavery in Metta V. Victor’s Maum Guinea and her Plantation “Children”

3. Someone’s in the Garden with Eve: Race, Religion, and the American Fall

4. Charles Chesnutt and the Masturbating Boy: Onanism, Whiteness, and The Marrow of Tradition

5. White Sex: Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Erotics of White Supremacy

6. Becoming Visible: I’m White, Therefore I’m Anxious

Epilogue: The Queer Face of Whiteness

Notes

Bibliography

Info autore

Mason Stokes is Assistant Professor of English at Skidmore College.

Riassunto

Offers fresh ways of thinking about whiteness by exploring its surprisingly ambivalent partnership with heterosexuality. This book examines white-supremacist American texts written and produced between 1852 and 1915 - literary romances, dime novels, religious and scientific tracts, film - and exposes the perverse infrastructure of whiteness.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Mason Stokes, Stokes, Mason Stokes
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 08.02.2001
• EAN: 9780822326267
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2626-7
• Pagine: 264
• Peso: 907 g
• Illustrazioni: 7 illustrations
• Serie: New Americanists; New Americanists
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata