Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0814735576 ISBN 13: 9780814735572

Casa editrice: New York Univ Pr, 1999

Riassunto

Since pre-colonial days, America has been both torn apart and united by love, sex, and marriage across racial boundaries. Whether motivated by violent conquest, economics, lust, or love, such unions have disturbed some of America's most sacred beliefs and prejudices.

Sex, Love, Race provides a historical foundation for contemporary discussions of sex across racial lines, which, despite the numbers of interracial marriages and multiracial children, remains a controversial issue today. The first historical anthology to focus solely and widely on the subject, Sex, Love, Race gathers new essays by both younger and well-known scholars which probe why and how the specter of sex across racial boundaries has so threatened Americans of all colors and classes.

Traversing the whole of American history, from liaisons among Indians, Europeans, and Africans to twentieth-century social scientists' fascination with sex between "Orientals" and whites, the essays cover a range of regions, races, ethnicities, and sexual orientations. In so doing, Sex, Love, Race, sketches a larger portrait of the overlapping construction of racial, ethnic, and sexual identities in America.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Martha Hodes is Assistant Professor of History at New York University and author of White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century American South.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: New York Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0814735576
• ISBN 13: 9780814735572
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 542
• Redattore: Hodes Martha Elizabeth