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The Color of Sex
Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy
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Mason Stokes
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Edited by:
Donald E. Pease
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English
Published/Copyright:
2001
About this book
Reads white supremacist narratives in the context of Black and white literature at the turn of the century, with special attention to the interconnections between race and sexuality.
Author / Editor information
Mason Stokes is Assistant Professor of English at Skidmore College.
Reviews
“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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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: White Fictions
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1. ‘‘De White Man in Season’’
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2. Sympathy and Symmetry: The Romance of Slavery in Metta V. Victor’s Maum Guinea and Her Plantation ‘‘Children’’
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3. Someone’s in the Garden with Eve: Race, Religion, and the American Fall
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4. Charles Chesnutt and the Masturbating Boy: Onanism, Whiteness, and TheMarrow of Tradition
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5. White Sex: Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Erotics of White Supremacy
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6. Becoming Visible: I’m White, Therefore I’m Anxious
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Epilogue: The Queer Face of Whiteness
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Notes
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Works Cited
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Index
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February 8, 2001
eBook ISBN:
9780822380870
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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264
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7 illustrations
