{"product_id":"the-color-of-sex-9780822326205","title":"The Color of Sex","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers fresh ways of thinking about whiteness by exploring its surprisingly ambivalent partnership with heterosexuality. This book examines white-supremacist American texts written and produced between 1852 and 1915 - literary romances, dime novels, religious and scientific tracts, film - and exposes the perverse infrastructure of whiteness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A stunningly conceived, lucidly written, well supported, nuanced, and absolutely compelling analysis of a culturally repressed and underanalyzed body of important literary materials. Stokes demonstrates with amplifying brilliance the operative interdependence of whiteness and normative heterosexuality.”—Dana Nelson, author of \u003ci\u003eNational Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An engaging and well written exploration of nineteenth-century ‘fictions’ of white supremacy that manages to combine wit and erudition.”—Gayle Wald, author of \u003ci\u003eCrossing the Line: Racial Passing in Twentieth Century U.S. Literature and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: White Fictions \u003cbr\u003e 1. “De White Man in Season” \u003cbr\u003e 2. Sympathy and Symmetry: The Romance of Slavery in Metta V. Victor’s \u003ci\u003eMaum Guinea and her Plantation “Children”\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 3. Someone’s in the Garden with Eve: Race, Religion, and the American Fall \u003cbr\u003e 4. Charles Chesnutt and the Masturbating Boy: Onanism, Whiteness, and \u003ci\u003eThe Marrow of Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 5. White Sex: Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Erotics of White Supremacy \u003cbr\u003e 6. Becoming Visible: I’m White, Therefore I’m Anxious \u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: The Queer Face of Whiteness \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406026613079,"sku":"9780822326205","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822326205.jpg?v=1730494288","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-color-of-sex-9780822326205","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}