The color of sex : whiteness, heterosexuality, and the fictions of white supremacy / Mason Stokes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stokes, Mason Boyd.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

New Americanists.

New Americanists

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--History and criticism.

American fiction.

White people in literature.

White supremacy movements--United States--History.

White supremacy movements.

Human skin color in literature.

Heterosexuality in literature.

African Americans in literature.

Racism in literature.

White in literature.

Race in literature.

Sex in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: White fictions.

"De White man in season."

Sympathy and symmetry: the romance of slavery in Metta V. Victor's Maum Guinea and her plantation "children".

Someone's in the garden with Eve: race, religion, and the American fall.

Charles Chesnutt and the masturbating boy: onanism, whiteness, and The Marrow of tradition.

White sex: Thomas Dixon Jr. and the erotics of White supremacy.

Becoming visible: I'm White, therefore I'm anxious.

Epilogue: The queer face of Whiteness.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-239) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Dez 2020)

ISBN:

9786612903731

9781282903739

128290373X

9780822380870

0822380870

OCLC:

850213131