Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in North America
Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in North America
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Abstract
This book investigates the ways in which race and sex intersect, overlap, and inform each other in United States history. The book includes thought-provoking articles that explore how to view the American past through the lens of race and sexuality studies. Chapters range from the prerevolutionary era to today to grapple with an array of captivating issues: how descriptions of bodies shaped colonial Americans' understandings of race and sex; same-sex sexual desire and violence within slavery; whiteness in gay and lesbian history; college women's agitation against heterosexual norms in the 1940s and 1950s; the ways society used sexualized bodies to sculpt ideas of race and racial beauty; how Mexican silent film icon Ramon Navarro masked his homosexuality with his racial identity; and sexual representation in mid-twentieth-century black print pop culture. The result is both an enlightening foray into ignored areas and an elucidation of new perspectives that challenge us to reevaluate what we “know” of our own history. The book looks at how racial subjugation feeds sexual normativity as well as how sexual and racial subjects enact liberating claims that can fall short of liberation even as they bring into being imaginative ideas about social, political, and cultural change.
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Front Matter
- Introduction
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Part 1 Deep Connections
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Part 2 Beauty and Desire
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Part 3 Subjectivities
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Power and Historical Figuring: Rachael Pringle Polgreen’s Troubled Archive
Marisa J. Fuentes
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The Curse of Canaan; or, A Fantasy of Origins in Nineteenth-Century America
Brian Connolly
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Mapping Sex, Race, and Gender in the Corps of Discovery Expedition
Wanda S. Pillow
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If We Got That Freedom: “Integration” and the Sexual Politics of Southern College Women, 1940–1960
Susan K. Cahn
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Strange Love: Searching for Sexual Subjectivities in 1950s Black Print Popular Culture
Leisa D. Meyer
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Out and on the Outs: The 1990s Mass Marches and the Black and LGBT Communities
Deborah Gray White
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Power and Historical Figuring: Rachael Pringle Polgreen’s Troubled Archive
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End Matter
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