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Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture

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Description for Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture Paperback. Analysing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, the author argues that the emerging understanding of homosexuality depended on the context of the black/white "colour line," the dominant system of racial distinction during the late nineteenth century. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JFC; JFSK; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was “invented” as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, Siobhan B. Somerville argues that the emerging understanding of homosexuality depended on the context of the black/white “color line,” the dominant system of racial distinction during this period. This book thus critiques and revises tendencies to treat race and sexuality as unrelated categories of analysis, showing instead that race has historically been central to the cultural production of homosexuality.... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Series
Series Q
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822324430
SKU
V9780822324430
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About Siobhan B. Somerville
Siobhan B. Somerville is Assistant Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Purdue University.

Reviews for Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture
“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 ... Read more

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