Relative Races
Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America
1st Edition
Published on 21. September 2020
322 pages
978-1-4780-1268-9 (ISBN)
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Brigitte Fielder presents an alternative theory of how race is constructed with readings of nineteenth-century personal narratives, novels, plays, stories, poems, and images to illustrate how interracial kinship follows non-heteronormative, non-biological, and non-patrilineal models of inheritance in nineteenth-century literary culture.
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Brigitte Fielder is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and coeditor of Against a Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Genealogies of Interracial Kinship 1
Part I. Romance. Sexual Kinship
1. Blackface Desdemona, or, the White Woman "Begrimed" 29
2. "Almost Eliza": Reading and Racialization 55
Part II. Reproduction. Genealogies of (Re)racialization
3. Mothers and Mammies: Racial Maternity and Matriliny 85
4. Kinfullness: Mama's Baby, Racial Futures 119
Part III. Residency Domestic. Racial Relations
5. Mary Jemison's Cabin: Domestic Spaces of Racialization 161
6. Racial (Re)Construction: Interracial Kinship and the Interracial Nation 195
Conclusion. "Minus Bloodlines": White Womanhood and Failures of Interracial Kinship 229
Notes 245
Bibliography 283
Index
Introduction. Genealogies of Interracial Kinship 1
Part I. Romance. Sexual Kinship
1. Blackface Desdemona, or, the White Woman "Begrimed" 29
2. "Almost Eliza": Reading and Racialization 55
Part II. Reproduction. Genealogies of (Re)racialization
3. Mothers and Mammies: Racial Maternity and Matriliny 85
4. Kinfullness: Mama's Baby, Racial Futures 119
Part III. Residency Domestic. Racial Relations
5. Mary Jemison's Cabin: Domestic Spaces of Racialization 161
6. Racial (Re)Construction: Interracial Kinship and the Interracial Nation 195
Conclusion. "Minus Bloodlines": White Womanhood and Failures of Interracial Kinship 229
Notes 245
Bibliography 283
Index
