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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454050803321

Autore

McWhorter Ladelle <1960->

Titolo

Racism and sexual oppression in Anglo-America [[electronic resource] ] : a genealogy / / Ladelle McWhorter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-10353-9

9786612103537

0-253-00293-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (441 p.)

Disciplina

305.800973

Soggetti

Minorities - Civil rights - United States - History

African Americans - Civil rights - History

Gay rights - United States - History

Racism - United States - History

Homophobia - United States - History

White people - United States - Attitudes - History

Eugenics - United States - History

Abnormalities, Human - Political aspects - United States - History

Electronic books.

United States Race relations

United States Social conditions 1865-1918

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-420) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Two great dangers -- Racism, race, race war : in search of conceptual clarity -- A genealogy of modern racism, part 1 : the White man cometh -- A genealogy of modern racism, part 2 : from Black lepers to idiot children -- Scientific racism and the threat of sexual predation -- Managing evolution : race betterment, race purification, and the American eugenics movement -- Nordics celebrate the family -- (Counter) remembering racism : an insurrection of subjugated knowledges.