The Color of Sex (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
264
Utgivningsdatum
2001-02-01
Förlag
Duke University Press
Illustratör/Fotograf
7 illustrations
Illustrationer
7 illustrations
Dimensioner
228 x 154 x 25 mm
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780822326267

The Color of Sex

Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy

av Mason Stokes
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2001-02-01
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In The Color of Sex Mason Stokes offers new ways of thinking about whiteness by exploring its surprisingly ambivalent partnership with heterosexuality. Stokes examines a wide range of white-supremacist American texts written and produced between 1852 and 1915-literary romances, dime novels, religious and scientific tracts, film-and exposes whiteness as a tangled network of racial and sexual desire. Stokes locates these white-supremacist texts amid the anti-racist efforts of African American writers and activists, deepening our understanding of both American and African American literary and cultural history. The Color of Sex reveals what happens when race and sexuality meet, when white desire encounters its own ambivalence. As Stokes argues, whiteness and heterosexuality exist in anxious relation to one another. Mutually invested in "the normal," they support each other in their desperate insistence on the cultural logic of exclusion. At the same time, however, they threaten one another in their attempt to create and sustain a white future, since reproducing whiteness necessarily involves the risk of contamination Charting the curious movements of this "white heterosexuality," The Color of Sex inaugurates a new moment in our ongoing attempt to understand the frenzied interplay of race and sexuality in America. As such, it will appeal to scholars interested in race theory, sexuality studies, and American history, culture, and literature.
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"A stunningly conceived, lucidly written, well supported, nuanced, and absolutely compelling analysis of a culturally repressed and underanalyzed body of important literary materials. Stokes demonstrates with amplifying brilliance the operative interdependence of whiteness and normative heterosexuality."-Dana Nelson, author of National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men "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

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Mason Stokes is Assistant Professor of English at Skidmore College.

Innehållsförteckning

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

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