The Color of Sex

Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy

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Mason Stokes

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New Americanists

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In "The Color of Sex" Mason Stokes offers alternative ways of thinking about whiteness by exploring its surprisingly ambivalent partnership with heterosexuality. Stokes examines a wide range of white-supremacist American texts written and produced between 1852 and 1915 - literary romances, dime novels, religious and scientific tracts, film - and exposes whiteness as a tangled network of racial and sexual desire. Stokes locates these white-supremacist texts amid the anti-racist efforts of African American writers and activists, aiming to deepen our understanding of both American and African American literary and cultural history. "The Color of Sex" reveals what happens when race and sexuality meet, when white desire encounters its own ambivalence. As Stokes argues, whiteness and heterosexuality exist in anxious relation to one another. Mutually invested in "the normal," they support each other in their desperate insistence on the cultural logic of exclusion. At the same time, however, they threaten one another in their attempt to create and sustain a white future, since reproducing whiteness necessarily involves the risk of contamination. Charting the curious movements of this "white heterosexuality," "The Color of Sex" inaugurates a new moment in our ongoing attempt to understand the frenzied interplay of race and sexuality in America. As such, it should appeal to scholars interested in race theory, sexuality studies, and American history, culture, and literature.

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Mason Stokes is Assistant Professor of English at Skidmore College.

Release date Australia

February 8th, 2001

Author

Mason Stokes

Audience

Professional & Vocational

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7 illustrations

Pages

264

Series

New Americanists

Dimensions

154x228x17

ISBN-13

9780822326205

Product ID

4181349

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