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

Stokes, Mason Boyd.

The color of sex : whiteness, heterosexuality, and the fictions of white supremacy / Mason Stokes. - Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2001. - viii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. - New Americanists . - New Americanists. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-239) and index.

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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American fiction--History and criticism.
Whites in literature.
White supremacy movements--History.--United States
Human skin color in literature.
Heterosexuality in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Racism in literature.
White in literature.
Race in literature.
Sex in literature.
Roman américain--Histoire et critique.
Blancs dans la littérature.
Mouvements pour la suprématie blanche--Histoire.--États-Unis
Hétérosexualité dans la littérature.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
Racisme dans la littérature.
Race dans la littérature.
Sexualité dans la littérature.
African Americans in literature.
American fiction.
Heterosexuality in literature.
Human skin color in literature.
Race in literature.
Racism in literature.
Sex in literature.
White in literature.
White supremacy movements.
Whites in literature.
Ethnische Beziehungen
Geschichte
Kultur
Literatur
Rassismus
Schwarze
Sexualität
Sexualverhalten
Vorherrschaft
Weiße
Heterosexualität
Unterdrückung
Rassenfrage
Geschlechterbeziehung


United States.
USA
USA.


Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

PS173.W46 / S76 2001

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