04291nam 2200781 a 450 991045731840332120200520144314.01-283-21082-797866132108210-8122-0034-910.9783/9780812200348(CKB)2550000000051150(OCoLC)759158190(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491915(SSID)ssj0000646794(PQKBManifestationID)11380980(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000646794(PQKBWorkID)10593989(PQKB)11185170(MiAaPQ)EBC3441458(MdBmJHUP)muse3187(DE-B1597)448892(OCoLC)979741007(DE-B1597)9780812200348(Au-PeEL)EBL3441458(CaPaEBR)ebr10491915(CaONFJC)MIL321082(OCoLC)932312380(EXLCZ)99255000000005115020020201d2002 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccr"Miscegenation"[electronic resource] making race in America /Elise LemirePhiladelphia [Pa.] University of Pennsylvania Pressc20021 online resource (215 p.)[New cultural studies] "Miscegenation"Series statement on jacket.0-8122-2064-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-189) and index. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction: The Rhetorical Wedge Between Preference and Prejudice -- 1. Race and the Idea of Preference in the New Republic -- 2. The Rhetoric of Blood and Mixture -- 3. The Barrier of Good Taste -- 4. Combating Abolitionism with the Species Argument -- 5. Making "Miscegenation" -- Epilogue: "Miscegenation" Today -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- AcknowledgmentsIn the years between the Revolution and the Civil War, as the question of black political rights was debated more and more vociferously, descriptions and pictorial representations of whites coupling with blacks proliferated in the North. Novelists, short-story writers, poets, journalists, and political cartoonists imagined that political equality would be followed by widespread inter-racial sex and marriage. Legally possible yet socially unthinkable, this "amalgamation" of the races would manifest itself in the perverse union of "whites" with "blacks," the latter figured as ugly, animal-like, and foul-smelling. In Miscegenation, Elise Lemire reads these literary and visual depictions for what they can tell us about the connection between the racialization of desire and the social construction of race.Previous studies of the prohibition of interracial sex and marriage in the U.S. have focused on either the slave South or the post-Reconstruction period. Looking instead to the North, and to such texts as the Federalist poetry about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans, Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue," and the 1863 pamphlet in which the word "miscegenation" was first used, Lemire examines the steps by which whiteness became a sexual category and same-race desire came to seem a biological imperative.American literature19th centuryHistory and criticismMiscegenation in literatureLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory19th centuryRacially mixed people in literatureRace relations in literatureRacism in literatureRace in literatureElectronic books.American literatureHistory and criticism.Miscegenation in literature.Literature and societyHistoryRacially mixed people in literature.Race relations in literature.Racism in literature.Race in literature.810.9/355Lemire Elise Virginia1029083MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457318403321"Miscegenation"2486950UNINA