Synopses & Reviews
Since pre-colonial days, America has been both torn apart and united by love, sex, and marriage across racial boundaries. Whether motivated by violent conquest, economics, lust, or love, such unions have disturbed some of America's most sacred beliefs and prejudices.
Sex, Love, Race provides a historical foundation for contemporary discussions of sex across racial lines, which, despite the numbers of interracial marriages and multiracial children, remains a controversial issue today. The first historical anthology to focus solely and widely on the subject, Sex, Love, Race gathers new essays by both younger and well-known scholars which probe why and how the specter of sex across racial boundaries has so threatened Americans of all colors and classes.
Traversing the whole of American history, from liaisons among Indians, Europeans, and Africans to twentieth-century social scientists' fascination with sex between "Orientals" and whites, the essays cover a range of regions, races, ethnicities, and sexual orientations. In so doing, Sex, Love, Race, sketches a larger portrait of the overlapping construction of racial, ethnic, and sexual identities in America.
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."
"Important. . . . The breadth of human experience and historical subfields traversed by the authors is astonishing."
"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."
Synopsis
Offers a portrait of the overlapping construction of racial, ethnic, and sexual identities in America
Since pre-colonial days, America has been both torn apart and united by love, sex, and marriage across racial boundaries. Whether motivated by violent conquest, economics, lust, or love, such unions have disturbed some of America's most sacred beliefs and prejudices.
Sex, Love, Race provides a historical foundation for contemporary discussions of sex across racial lines, which, despite the numbers of interracial marriages and multiracial children, remains a controversial issue today. The first historical anthology to focus solely and widely on the subject, Sex, Love, Race gathers new essays by both younger and well-known scholars which probe why and how the specter of sex across racial boundaries has so threatened Americans of all colors and classes.
Traversing the whole of American history, from liaisons among Indians, Europeans, and Africans to twentieth-century social scientists' fascination with sex between Orientals and whites, the essays cover a range of regions, races, ethnicities, and sexual orientations. In so doing, Sex, Love, Race sketches a larger portrait of the overlapping construction of racial, ethnic, and sexual identities in America.
Synopsis
Since pre-colonial days, America has been both torn apart and united by love, sex, and marriage across racial boundaries. Whether motivated by violent conquest, economics, lust, or love, such unions have disturbed some of America's most sacred beliefs and prejudices.
Sex, Love, Race provides a historical foundation for contemporary discussions of sex across racial lines, which, despite the numbers of interracial marriages and multiracial children, remains a controversial issue today. The first historical anthology to focus solely and widely on the subject, Sex, Love, Race gathers new essays by both younger and well-known scholars which probe why and how the specter of sex across racial boundaries has so threatened Americans of all colors and classes.
Traversing the whole of American history, from liaisons among Indians, Europeans, and Africans to twentieth-century social scientists' fascination with sex between "Orientals" and whites, the essays cover a range of regions, races, ethnicities, and sexual orientations. In so doing, Sex, Love, Race, sketches a larger portrait of the overlapping construction of racial, ethnic, and sexual identities in America.
Synopsis
This major new series reproduces an authoritative selection of the most significant articles in different areas of psychology. It focuses in particular on influential articles which are not found in other similar collections.
Many of these articles are only available in specialized journals and therefore are not accessible in every library. This landmark series will make a contribution to scholarship and teaching in psychology. It will imorove access to important areas of literature which are difficult to locate, even in the archives of many libraries throughout the world.
Important features in each book make the series an essential research and reference tool, including introductions written by the individual editors providing a lucid survey of difference branches of psychology. The pagination of the original articles has been deliberately retained to facilitate ease of reference. A comprehensive author and subject index guides the reader instantly to major and minor topics within the literature.
About the Author
Martha Hodes is Assistant Professor of History at New York University and author of White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century American South.
Table of Contents
The hidden history of Mestizo America / G.B. Nash -- "They need wives" : Mâetissage and the regulation of sexuality in French Louisiana, 1699-1730 / J.M. Spear -- The pastor and the prostitute : sexual power among African Americans and Germans in colonial New York / G.R. Hodges -- The saga of Sarah Muckamugg : Indian and African American intermarriage in colonial New England -- Eroticizing the middle ground : Anglo-Indian sexual relations along the 18th century frontier / R. Godbeer -- "Shamefull matches" : the regulation of interracial sex and marriage in the South before 1900 / P.W. Bardaglio -- Lines of color, sex, and service : comparative sexual coercion in early America / S. Block -- Unfixing race : class, power, and identity in an interracial family / T.E. Buckley -- From Abolitionist amalgamators to "Rulers of the Five Points" : the discourse of interracial sex and reform in antebellum New York City / L.M. Harris -- White pain pollen : an elite biracial daughter's quandary / J.B. Bradley & K.A. Leslie -- Misshapen identity : memory, folklore, and the legend of Rachel Knight / V.E. Bynum -- Still waiting : intermarriage in white women's civil war novels / L.C. Sizer -- "Not that sort of women" : race, gender, and sexual violence during the Memphis riot of 1866 / H. Rosen -- The disappearance of Susan Daniel and Henderson Cooper : gender and narratives of political conflict in the reconstruction-era U.S. South / L.F. Edwards.