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Queering the color line : race and the invention of homosexuality in American culture
- Author
- Somerville, Siobhan B.
- Title
- Queering the color line : race and the invention of homosexuality in American culture / Siobhan Somerville.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Durham, [NC] : Duke University Press, 2000.
- Description
- xi, 259 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- URL
- <Book review (H-Net)> http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0b8y5-aa
- Other titles
- Don Belton collection
- Series
- Series Q
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-247) and index.
- Contents
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- Introduction
- 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: "preverse" desire in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
- "Queer to myself as I am to you": Jean Toomer, racial disidentification, and queer reading
- Conclusion.
- Kinsey subjects
- Status of homosexuals--United States. Gender role identification. Homosexuality. Ethnic groups. Homosexuality in literature. Homosexuality in cinema. Cinema history.
- ISBN
- 0822324075 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822324072 (cloth : alk. paper) 0822324431 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780822324430 (pbk. : alk. paper)