The Color of Sex
Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy
1st Edition
Published on 8. February 2001
262 pages
978-0-8223-8087-0 (ISBN)
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Reads white supremacist narratives in the context of Black and white literature at the turn of the century, with special attention to the interconnections between race and sexuality.
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02/2001
Duke University Press
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Mason Stokes is Assistant Professor of English at Skidmore College.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: White Fictions
1. "De White Man in Season"
2. Sympathy and Symmetry: The Romance of Slavery in Metta V. Victor's Maum Guinea and her Plantation "Children"
3. Someone's in the Garden with Eve: Race, Religion, and the American Fall
4. Charles Chesnutt and the Masturbating Boy: Onanism, Whiteness, and The Marrow of Tradition
5. White Sex: Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Erotics of White Supremacy
6. Becoming Visible: I'm White, Therefore I'm Anxious
Epilogue: The Queer Face of Whiteness
Notes
Bibliography
Introduction: White Fictions
1. "De White Man in Season"
2. Sympathy and Symmetry: The Romance of Slavery in Metta V. Victor's Maum Guinea and her Plantation "Children"
3. Someone's in the Garden with Eve: Race, Religion, and the American Fall
4. Charles Chesnutt and the Masturbating Boy: Onanism, Whiteness, and The Marrow of Tradition
5. White Sex: Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Erotics of White Supremacy
6. Becoming Visible: I'm White, Therefore I'm Anxious
Epilogue: The Queer Face of Whiteness
Notes
Bibliography
