Sex, Love, Race

Crossing Boundaries in North American History

By: Martha Hodes (Editor)

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Paperback | 31 January 1999

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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.

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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.-- "Virginia Quarterly Review"

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Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction: Interconnecting and Diverging Narratives	p. 1
The Hidden History of Mestizo America	p. 10
Colonial Era
"They Need Wives": Metissage and the Regulation of Sexuality in French Louisiana, 1699-1730	p. 35
The Pastor and the Prostitute: Sexual Power among African Americans and Germans in Colonial New York	p. 60
The Saga of Sarah Muckamugg: Indian and African American Intermarriage in Colonial New England	p. 72
Eroticizing the Middle Ground: Anglo-Indian Sexual Relations along the Eighteenth-Century Frontier	p. 91
"Shamefull Matches": The Regulation of Interracial Sex and Marriage in the South before 1900	p. 112
Early National and Antebellum Periods
Lines of Color, Sex, and Service: Comparative Sexual Coercion in Early America	p. 141
Unfixing Race: Class, Power, and Identity in an Interracial Family	p. 164
From Abolitionist Amalgamators to "Rulers of the Five Points": The Discourse of Interracial Sex and Reform in Antebellum New York City	p. 191
White Pain Pollen: An Elite Biracial Daughter's Quandary	p. 213
Civil War and Reconstruction
Misshapen Identity: Memory, Folklore, and the Legend of Rachel Knight	p. 237
Still Waiting: Intermarriage in White Women's Civil War Novels	p. 254
"Not That Sort of Women": Race, Gender, and Sexual Violence during the Memphis Riot of 1866	p. 267
The Disappearance of Susan Daniel and Henderson Cooper: Gender and Narratives of Political Conflict in the Reconstruction-Era U.S. South	p. 294
Livestock, Boundaries, and Public Space in Spartanburg: African American Men, Elite White Women, and the Spectacle of Conjugal Relations	p. 313
Turn of the Century
Accomplished Ladies and Coyotes: Marriage, Power, and Straying from the Flock in Territorial New Mexico, 1880-1920	p. 331
The Reform of Rape Law and the Problem of White Men: Age-of-Consent Campaigns in the South, 1885-1910	p. 352
The Appeal of Cole Blease of South Carolina: Race, Class, and Sex in the New South	p. 373
Remapping the Black/White Body: Sexuality, Nationalism, and Biracial Antimiscegenation Activism in 1920s Virginia	p. 399
Twentieth Century
The Prison Lesbian: Race, Class, and the Construction of the Aggressive Female Homosexual, 1915-1965	p. 423
Mixing Bodies and Cultures: The Meaning of America's Fascination with Sex between "Orientals" and "Whites"	p. 444
Miscegenation Law, Court Cases, and Ideologies of "Race" in Twentieth-Century America	p. 464
Speaking of Race: Sarah Patton Boyle and the "T. J. Sellers Course for Backward Southern Whites"	p. 491
Crossing Oceans, Crossing Colors: Black Peace Corps Volunteers and Interracial Love in Africa, 1961-1971	p. 514
Index	p. 531
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