Description
Book SynopsisThese essays investigate why and how the spectre of sexual relations across racial boundaries has so threatened North Americans of all colours and classes. Traversing centuries of American history, the contributors cover a range of regions, races, ethnicities and sexual orientations.
Trade Review"In editing this collection, Martha Hodes has performed an invaluable service to those of us in the profession who endeavor to teach what has been the focus of our own scholarship: race and sex." * The Journal of Southern History *
"Hodes has compiled a thoughtful collection of essays which explore the implications of interracial sexual activity from the colonial period to the late 20th century." * Virginia Quarterly Review *
"Important. . . . The breadth of human experience and historical subfields traversed by the authors is astonishing." * Journal of Social History *
