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

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: White Fictions 1
5. 1. ‘‘De White Man in Season’’ 23
6. 2. Sympathy and Symmetry: The Romance of Slavery in Metta V. Victor’s Maum Guinea and Her Plantation ‘‘Children’’ 51
7. 3. Someone’s in the Garden with Eve: Race, Religion, and the American Fall 82
8. 4. Charles Chesnutt and the Masturbating Boy: Onanism, Whiteness, and TheMarrow of Tradition 108
9. 5. White Sex: Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Erotics of White Supremacy 133
10. 6. Becoming Visible: I’m White, Therefore I’m Anxious 158
11. Epilogue: The Queer Face of Whiteness 178
12. Notes 193
13. Works Cited 227
14. Index 241