Stokes / Pease The Color of Sex

Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8087-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 262 Seiten

Reihe: New Americanists

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stokes, Mason

Pease, Donald E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Mason Stokes is Assistant Professor of English at Skidmore College.