"Miscegenation": Making Race in America

Elise Lemire

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2002

"Miscegenation"

Making Race in America

Elise Lemire

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812200348

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"The sexualizing of race and the racializing of sex have shaped U.S. society in powerful and destructive ways. Lemire's brief, well-researched, and thoughtful book illustrates how key components of this protean process became part of the worldview of nineteenth-century white society."—Choice

Author / Editor information

Elise Lemire, Professor of Literature at Purchase College, State University of New York, is the author of Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Reviews

"The sexualizing of race and the racializing of sex have shaped U.S. society in powerful and destructive ways. Lemire's brief, well-researched, and thoughtful book illustrates how key components of this protean process became part of the worldview of nineteenth-century white society."—Choice

"This is an exciting book. Lemire convinces the reader that the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries witnessed an often shrill argument for intra-racial, as opposed to inter-racial, coupling in the northeastern United States. Making love across the racial divide between black and white thus came to appear as a contradiction in terms, since only making miscegenation was possible."—Werner Sollors, Harvard University

"Lemire opens new paths of inquiry into the invention of race and of whiteness, as well as into the history of love and sexual desire in the United States."—Martha Hodes, New York University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction: The Rhetorical Wedge Between Preference and Prejudice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Race and the Idea of Preference in the New Republic The Port Folio Poems About Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
2. The Rhetoric of Blood and Mixture Cooper’s “Man Without a Cross” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
3. The Barrier of Good Taste Avoiding A Sojourn in the City of Amalgamation in the Wake of Abolitionism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
4. Combating Abolitionism with the Species Argument Race and Economic Anxieties in Poe’s Philadelphia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
5. Making “Miscegenation” Alcott’s Paul Frere and the Limits of Brotherhood After Emancipation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Epilogue: “Miscegenation” Today Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 216
Illustrations
- Other: 19 illus.
Keywords: Cultural Studies; American History; African-American Studies; African Studies; Literature; Cultural Studies; American History; American Studies

eBook

Published: August 3, 2010
ISBN: 9780812200348