| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 259 pages) : illustrations |
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Series Q |
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Series Q.
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| Contents |
Scientific racism and the invention of the homosexual body -- The queer career of Jim Crow : racial and sexual transformation in early cinema -- Inverting the tragic mulatta tradition : race and homosexuality in Pauline E. Hopkins's fiction -- Double lives on the color line : "perverse" desire in The autobiography of an ex-coloured man -- "Queer to myself as I am to you" : Jean Toomer, racial disidentification, and queer reading |
| Summary |
"Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was "invented" as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, Siobhan B. Somerville argues that the emerging understanding of homosexuality depended on the context of the black/white "color line," the dominant system of racial distinction during this period. This book thus critiques and revises tendencies to treat race and sexuality as unrelated categories of analysis, showing instead that race has historically been central to the cultural production of homosexuality. At about the same time that the 1896 Supreme Court Plessy v. Ferguson decision hardened the racialized boundary between black and white, prominent trials were drawing the public's attention to emerging categories of sexual identity. Somerville argues that these concurrent developments were not merely parallel but in fact inextricably interrelated and that the discourses of racial and sexual "deviance" were used to reinforce each other's terms. She provides original readings of such texts as Havelock Ellis's late nineteenth-century work on "sexual inversion," the 1914 film A Florida Enchantment, the novels of Pauline E. Hopkins, James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, and Jean Toomer's fiction and autobiographical writings, including Cane. Through her analyses of these texts and her archival research, Somerville contributes to the growing body of scholarship that focuses on discovering the intersections of gender, race, and sexuality."--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-247) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Description based on print version record; title from PDF title page (viewed August 22, 2022) |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| SUBJECT |
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd |
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Gender identity -- United States -- History
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Race awareness -- United States -- History
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Homosexuality in literature.
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Homosexuality in motion pictures.
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Race relations in literature.
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Race relations in motion pictures.
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Culture in motion pictures.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gay Studies
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Culture in motion pictures
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Gender identity
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Homosexuality in literature
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Homosexuality in motion pictures
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Race awareness
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Race relations in literature
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Race relations in motion pictures
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Kultur
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Homosexualität
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Ethnische Beziehungen
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United States
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0822378760 |
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9780822378761 |
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