"Miscegenation": Making Race in America (New Cultural Studies) (Hardcover)

by Elise Lemire (Author) "On a tour of North and South Carolina in 1773, Bostonian Josiah Quincy, Jr., took note of what he perceived to be the prevailing attitudes..." (more)
Key Phrases: miscegenation pamphlet, white abolitionist women, practical amalgamation, New York, Port Folio, American Anti-Slavery Society (more...)

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"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 "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 "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 text refers to the Paperback edition.

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"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

"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

"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

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 216 pages
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press (July 23, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812236645
• ISBN-13: 978-0812236644
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
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