1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961072603321

Autore

Somerville Siobhan B

Titolo

Queering the color line : race and the invention of homosexuality in American culture / / Siobhan Somerville

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2000

ISBN

9780822378761

0822378760

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Series Q

Disciplina

305.3/0973

Soggetti

Gender identity - United States - History

Race awareness - United States - History

Homosexuality in literature

Homosexuality in motion pictures

Race relations in literature

Race relations in motion pictures

Culture in motion pictures

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 (pages [221]-247) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body -- The Queer Career of Jim Crow: Racial and Sexual Transformation in Early Cinema -- Inverting the Tragic Mulatta Tradition: Race and Homosexuality in Pauline E. Hopkins's Fiction -- Double Lives on the Color Line: "Perverse" Desire in The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man -- "Queer to Myself As I Am to You": Jean Toomer, Racial Disidentification, and Queer Reading.

Sommario/riassunto

"Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was "invented" as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, Siobhan B. Somerville argues that the emerging understanding of homosexuality depended on the context of the black/white "color line," the dominant system of racial distinction during this period. This book thus critiques and revises tendencies to treat race and sexuality as unrelated categories of analysis, showing



instead that race has historically been central to the cultural production of homosexuality. At about the same time that the 1896 Supreme Court Plessy v. Ferguson decision hardened the racialized boundary between black and white, prominent trials were drawing the public's attention to emerging categories of sexual identity. Somerville argues that these concurrent developments were not merely parallel but in fact inextricably interrelated and that the discourses of racial and sexual "deviance" were used to reinforce each other's terms. She provides original readings of such texts as Havelock Ellis's late nineteenth-century work on "sexual inversion," the 1914 film A Florida Enchantment, the novels of Pauline E. Hopkins, James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, and Jean Toomer's fiction and autobiographical writings, including Cane. Through her analyses of these texts and her archival research, Somerville contributes to the growing body of scholarship that focuses on discovering the intersections of gender, race, and sexuality." -- Publisher's description.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483121603321

Autore

Bettinger Robert L

Titolo

Hunter-Gatherers : Archaeological and Evolutionary Theory / / by Robert L. Bettinger, Raven Garvey, Shannon Tushingham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Springer US : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

1-4899-7581-0

Edizione

[2nd ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 304 p. 25 illus.)

Collana

Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology, , 1568-2722

Disciplina

306.364

Soggetti

Archaeology

Anthropology

Evolution (Biology)

Evolutionary Biology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Part I. Historical Approaches to Hunter-Gatherers -- Chapter 1: Progressive Social Evolution and Hunter-Gatherers -- Chapter 2: The History of Americanist Hunter-Gatherer Research -- Part II. Theories of



Limited Sets -- Chapter 3: Middle-Range Theory and Hunter-Gatherers -- Chapter 4: Hunter-Gatherers as Optimal Foragers -- Chapter 5: More Complex Models of Optimal Behavior among Hunter-Gatherers -- Part III. Theories of General Sets -- Chapter 6: Marxist and Structural Marxist Perspectives of Hunter-Gatherers -- Chapter 7: Neo-Darwinian Theory and Hunter-Gatherers -- Chapter 8: Hunter-Gatherers and Neo-Darwinian Cultural Transmission -- Chapter 9: Hunter-Gatherers: Problems in Theory.

Sommario/riassunto

Hunter-gatherer research has played a historically central role in the development of anthropological and evolutionary theory. Today, research in this traditional and enduringly vital field blurs lines of distinction between archaeology and ethnology, and seeks instead to develop perspectives and theories broadly applicable to anthropology and its many subdisciplines. In the groundbreaking first edition of Hunter-Gatherers: Archaeological and Evolutionary Theory (1991), Robert Bettinger presented an integrative perspective on hunter-gatherer research and advanced a theoretical approach compatible with both traditional anthropological and contemporary evolutionary theories. Hunter-Gatherers remains a well-respected and much-cited text, now over 20 years since initial publication. Yet, as in other vibrant fields of study, the last two decades have seen important empirical and theoretical advances.  In this second edition of Hunter-Gatherers, co-authors Robert Bettinger, Raven Garvey, and Shannon Tushingham offer a revised and expanded version of the classic text, which includes a succinct and provocative critical synthesis of hunter-gatherer and evolutionary theory, from the Enlightenment to the present. New and expanded sections relate and react to recent developments—some of them the authors’ own—particularly in the realms of optimal foraging and cultural transmission theories.      An exceptionally informative and ambitious volume on cultural evolutionary theory, Hunter-Gatherers, second edition, is an essential addition to the libraries of anthropologists, archaeologists, and human ecologists alike.