Racism and sexual oppression in Anglo-America : a genealogy / Ladelle McWhorter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McWhorter, Ladelle, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities--Civil rights--United States--History.

Minorities.

African Americans--Civil rights--History.

African Americans.

Gay rights--United States--History.

Gay rights.

Racism--United States--History.

Racism.

Homophobia--United States--History.

Homophobia.

White people--United States--Attitudes--History.

White people.

Eugenics--United States--History.

Eugenics.

Abnormalities, Human--Political aspects--United States--History.

Abnormalities, Human.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

United States--Social conditions--1865-1918.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (441 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Does the black struggle for civil rights make common cause with the movement to foster queer community, protest anti-queer violence or discrimination, and demand respect for the rights and sensibilities of queer people? Confronting this emotionally charged question, Ladelle McWhorter reveals how a carefully structured campaign against abnormality in the late 19th and early 20th centuries encouraged white Americans to purge society of so-called biological contaminants, people who were poor, disabled, black, or queer. Building on a legacy of savage hate crimes -- such as the killings of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd -- McWhorter shows that racism, sexual oppression, and discrimination against the disabled, the feeble, and the poor are all aspects of the same societal distemper, and that when the civil rights of one group are challenged, so are the rights of all.

Contents:

Introduction: Two great dangers

Racism, race, race war : in search of conceptual clarity

A genealogy of modern racism, part 1 : the White man cometh

A genealogy of modern racism, part 2 : from Black lepers to idiot children

Scientific racism and the threat of sexual predation

Managing evolution : race betterment, race purification, and the American eugenics movement

Nordics celebrate the family

(Counter) remembering racism : an insurrection of subjugated knowledges.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-420) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-10353-9

9786612103537

0-253-00293-1

OCLC:

647770992