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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Somerville, Siobhan B. Queering the color line. Durham, [NC] : Duke University Press, 2000 (OCoLC)654549343 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Siobhan B Somerville |
| ISBN: | 0822324075 9780822324072 0822324431 9780822324430 |
| OCLC Number: | 41601208 |
| Description: | xi, 259 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body -- The Queer Career of Jim Crow: Racial and Sexual Transformation in Early Cinema -- Inverting the Tragic Mulatta Tradition: Race and Homosexuality in Pauline E. Hopkins's Fiction -- Double Lives on the Color Line: "Perverse" Desire in The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man -- "Queer to Myself As I Am to You": Jean Toomer, Racial Disidentification, and Queer Reading. |
| Series Title: | Series Q. |
| Responsibility: | Siobhan Somerville. |
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"By offering a new understanding of the emergence of race and sexuality as collaborative entities, Somerville has made an important contribution to the expanding scholarship in African American studies, American studies, queer theory, and cultural studies."--Robyn Wiegman, author of American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender "This book pioneers new strategies for understanding the intersectionality of sexuality and race formation. Equally adept at textual analysis and historical contextualisation, Somerville demonstrates how the early sexological division of people into homosexuals and heterosexuals was profoundly shaped by the discourse of scientific racism, and she elaborates her argument through a series of subtle reinterpretations of cinematic and literary texts that illuminate the profound--usually inexplicit--interdependence of racial and sexual discourse. A path-breaking study."--George Chauncey, University of Chicago "Queering the Color Line is a groundbreaking study that sets a new agenda for critical investigations of the intersecting histories of race and sexuality in the United States. Siobhan Somerville provides a model of interdisciplinary, politically engaged scholarship that is certain to become required reading in queer studies, race theory, and U.S. history as well as American literature."--Lisa Duggan, New York University "No discussion of the way queer theory and ethnic studies enhance each other would be complete without mentioning Siobhan B. Somerville's groundbreaking 2000 book, Queering the Color Line -- considered the first salvo in the developing field of race and sexuality studies." - Robert Reid-Pharr, The Chronicle Review Read more...
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