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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Mason Stokes
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 08.02.2001
• EAN: 9780822326205
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2620-5
• Pagine: 264
• Dimensioni: 140 mm x 234 mm x 17 mm
• Peso: 363 g
• Serie: New Americanists
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese