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"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
Sommario
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body 15
2. The Queer Career of Jim Crow: Racial and Sexual Transformation in Early Cinema 39
3. Inverting the Tragic Mulatta Tradition: Race and Homosexuality in Pauline E. Hopkins’s Fiction 77
4. Double Lives on the Color Line: “Perverse” Desire in
The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man 111
5. “Queer to Myself As I Am to You”: Jean Toomer, Racial Disidentification, and Queer Reading 131
Conclusion 166
Appendix 177
Notes 181
Bibliography 221
Index 249
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Siobhan B. Somerville
