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

Mason Stokes

Published by Duke University Press 2001

The Color of Sex

Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy

Mason Stokes
Edited by: Donald E. Pease

In the series New Americanists

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822380870

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Mason Stokes is Assistant Professor of English at Skidmore College.

Reviews

“A stunningly conceived, lucidly written, well supported, nuanced, and absolutely compelling analysis of a culturally repressed and underanalyzed body of important literary materials. Stokes demonstrates with amplifying brilliance the operative interdependence of whiteness and normative heterosexuality.”—Dana Nelson, author of National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men

“An engaging and well written exploration of nineteenth-century ‘fictions’ of white supremacy that manages to combine wit and erudition.”—Gayle Wald, author of Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in Twentieth Century U.S. Literature and Culture

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: White Fictions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. ‘‘De White Man in Season’’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
2. Sympathy and Symmetry: The Romance of Slavery in Metta V. Victor’s Maum Guinea and Her Plantation ‘‘Children’’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
3. Someone’s in the Garden with Eve: Race, Religion, and the American Fall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
4. Charles Chesnutt and the Masturbating Boy: Onanism, Whiteness, and TheMarrow of Tradition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
5. White Sex: Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Erotics of White Supremacy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
6. Becoming Visible: I’m White, Therefore I’m Anxious Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
Epilogue: The Queer Face of Whiteness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 262
Illustrations
- Other: 7 illustrations

eBook

Published: February 8, 2001
ISBN: 9780822380870