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Miscegenation :

0812220641

0812236645

9780812220643

9780812236644

b523548

Miscegenation :

[Book]

making race in America /

Elise Lemire

Philadelphia :

University of Pennsylvania Press,

[2002]

©2002

204 pages :

illustrations ;

24 cm

[New cultural studies]

Series statement on jacket

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-189) and index

Race and the idea of preference in the New Republic: The port folio poems about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings -- The rhetoric of blood and mixture: Cooper's "man without a cross" -- The barrier of good taste: avoiding a sojourn in the city of amalgamation in the wake of abolitionism -- Combating abolitionism with the species argument: race economic anxieties in Poe's Philadelphia -- Making "miscegenation": Alcott's Paul Frere and the limits of brotherhood after emancipation

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"In the years between the Revolution and the Civil War, as the question of black political rights was debated more and more vociferously, descriptions and pictorial representations of whites coupling with blacks proliferated in the North. Novelists, short-story writers, poets, journalists, and political cartoonists imagined that political equality would be followed by widespread inter-racial sex and marriage. Legally possible yet socially unthinkable, this "amalgamation" of the races would manifest itself in the perverse union of whites with blacks, the latter figured as ugly, animal-like, and foul-smelling. In "Miscegenation," Elise Lemire reads these literary and visual depictions for what they can tell us about the connection between the racialization of desire and the social construction of race."--Jacket

Jefferson, Thomas,1743-1826-- In literature

American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism

Literature and society-- United States-- History-- 19th century

Miscegenation in literature

Race in literature

Race relations in literature

Racially mixed people in literature

Racism in literature

Lemire, Elise Virginia

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