The Color of Sex : Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stokes, Mason Boyd
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2000.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
White people in literature.
White supremacy movements.
White in literature.
Sex in literature.
Racism in literature.
Race in literature.
Human skin color in literature.
Heterosexuality in literature.
American fiction.
African Americans in literature.
Men, White, in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Blanc dans la litterature.
Couleur de la peau dans la litterature.
Sexualite dans la litterature.
Race dans la litterature.
Racisme dans la litterature.
Noirs americains dans la litterature.
Heterosexualite dans la litterature.
Mouvements pour la suprematie blanche > États-Unis > Histoire.
Blancs dans la litterature.
Roman americain > Histoire et critique.
White supremacy movements > United States > History.
American fiction > History and criticism.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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