Title Illicit love : interracial sex and marriage in the United States and Australia / Ann McGrath

Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xxxi, [504] pages) : illustrations, maps Series Borderlands and transcultural studies Borderlands and transcultural studies. Contents Introduction: a perfect marriage? -- Part 1. Secrets of new nations. 1. Harriett gold and Elias Boudinot: against history? -- 2. Ernest gribble and Jeannie -- Part 2. Marriage and modernity among the Cherokees. 3. Socrates, Cherokee sovereignty, and the regulation of white men -- 4. John ross and Mary Bryan stapler -- Part 3. Queensland's marital middle ground. 5. Husbands under surveillance -- 6. Consent and aboriginal wives -- Part 4. Embodying new worlds. 7. Polygamy's new worlds -- 8. Entwined sovereignties and the great unwedding Summary "Illicit Love is a history of love, sex, and marriage between Indigenous peoples and settler citizens at the heart of two settler colonial nations, the United States and Australia. Award-winning historian Ann McGrath illuminates interracial relationships from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century through stories of romance, courtship, and marriage between Indigenous peoples and colonizers in times of nation formation. The romantic relationships of well-known and ordinary interracial couples provide the backdrop against which McGrath discloses the "marital middle ground" that emerged as a primary threat to European colonial and racial supremacy in the Atlantic and Pacific Worlds from the Age of Revolution to the Progressive Era. These relationships include the controversial courtship between white, Connecticut-born Harriett Gold and southern Cherokee Elias Boudinot; the Australian missionary Ernest Gribble and his efforts to socially segregate the settler and aboriginal population, only to be overcome by his romantic impulses for an aboriginal woman, Jeannie; the irony of Cherokee leader John Ross's marriage to a white woman, Mary Brian Stapler, despite his opposition to interracial marriages in the Cherokee Nation; and the efforts among ordinary people in the imperial borderlands of both the United States and Australia to circumvent laws barring interracial love, sex, and marriage. Illicit Love reveals how marriage itself was used by disparate parties for both empowerment and disempowerment and came to embody the contradictions of imperialism. A tour de force of settler colonial history, McGrath's study demonstrates vividly how interracial relationships between Indigenous and colonizing peoples were more frequent and threatening to nation-states in the Atlantic and Pacific worlds than historians have previously acknowledged"-- Provided by publisher "Wedding New Worlds revises histories of interracial love, sex, and marriage amid legal and cultural barriers created to regulate and make illegal the liaisons between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Australia and the US from the late 18th century to the 20th century"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-488) and index Notes Print version record Subject Interracial marriage -- United States -- History Interracial marriage -- Australia -- History Miscegenation -- United States -- History Miscegenation -- Australia -- History Indigenous peoples -- United States -- History Indigenous peoples -- Australia -- History HISTORY -- United States -- General. HISTORY -- Australia & New Zealand. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. Indigenous peoples Interracial marriage Miscegenation Sexualität Interethnische Ehe Australia United States Australien USA Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780803285415 0803285418 0803285434 9780803285439

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