TY  - GEN
T1  - "Miscegenation" : making race in America
A1  - Lemire, Elise Virginia
LA  - English
PP  - Philadelphia Pa.
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
YR  - 2002
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn759158190
AB  - Annotation In the years between the Revolution and the Civil War, as the question of black political rights was debated more and more vociferously, descriptions and pictorial representations of whites coupling with blacks proliferated in the North. Novelists, short-story writers, poets, journalists, and political cartoonists imagined that political equality would be followed by widespread inter-racial sex and marriage. Legally possible yet socially unthinkable, this "amalgamation" of the races would manifest itself in the perverse union of "whites" with "blacks," the latter figured as ugly, animal-like, and foul-smelling. InMiscegenation, Elise Lemire reads these literary and visual depictions for what they can tell us about the connection between the racialization of desire and the social construction of race. Previous studies of the prohibition of interracial sex and marriage in the U.S. have focused on either the slave South or the post-Reconstruction period. Looking instead to the North, and to such texts as the Federalist poetry about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, James Fenimore Cooper'sLast of the Mohicans, Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue," and the 1863 pamphlet in which the word "miscegenation" was first used, Lemire examines the steps by which whiteness became a sexual category and same-race desire came to seem a biological imperative.
OP  - 204
NO  - Series statement on jacket.
CN  - PS217.M57 L46 2002eb
SN  - 9780812200348
SN  - 0812200349
SN  - 9780812236644
SN  - 0812236645
SN  - 0812220641
SN  - 9780812220643
SN  - 1283210827
SN  - 9781283210829
KW  - Jefferson, Thomas, : 1743-1826 : In literature.
KW  - Jefferson, Thomas, : 1743-1826
KW  - American literature : 19th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Miscegenation in literature.
KW  - Literature and society : United States : History : 19th century.
KW  - Racially mixed people in literature.
KW  - Race relations in literature.
KW  - Racism in literature.
KW  - Race in literature.
KW  - Littérature américaine : 19e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Métissage dans la littérature.
KW  - Littérature et société : États-Unis : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Relations raciales dans la littérature.
KW  - Racisme dans la littérature.
KW  - Race dans la littérature.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : General.
KW  - American literature
KW  - Literature
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Miscegenation in literature
KW  - Race in literature
KW  - Race relations in literature
KW  - Racially mixed people in literature
KW  - Racism in literature
KW  - United States
KW  - 1800-1899
KW  - African Studies.
KW  - African-American Studies.
KW  - American History.
KW  - American Studies.
KW  - Cultural Studies.
KW  - Literature.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - History
ER  -