Queering the Color Line : Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture /

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"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 literatur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Somerville, Siobhan B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham [North Carolina] : Duke University Press, 2000.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer > Bitterfeld
Ethnische Beziehungen
Homosexualität
Kultur
Race relations in motion pictures.
Race relations in literature.
Race awareness.
Homosexuality in motion pictures.
Homosexuality in literature.
Gender identity.
Culture in motion pictures.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gay Studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Culture au cinema.
Relations raciales au cinema.
Relations raciales dans la litterature.
Homosexualite au cinema.
Homosexualite dans la litterature.
Conscience de race > États-Unis > Histoire.
Identite sexuelle > États-Unis > Histoire.
Race awareness > United States > History.
Gender identity > United States > History.
USA
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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