LEADER 04462nam 2200841 a 450 001 9910781622103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-21082-7 010 $a9786613210821 010 $a0-8122-0034-9 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812200348 035 $a(CKB)2550000000051150 035 $a(OCoLC)759158190 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491915 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000646794 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11380980 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000646794 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10593989 035 $a(PQKB)11185170 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse3187 035 $a(DE-B1597)448892 035 $a(OCoLC)979741007 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812200348 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441458 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10491915 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL321082 035 $a(OCoLC)932312380 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441458 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000051150 100 $a20020201d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$a"Miscegenation"$b[electronic resource] $emaking race in America /$fElise Lemire 210 $aPhiladelphia [Pa.] $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (215 p.) 225 0 $a[New cultural studies] "Miscegenation" 300 $aSeries statement on jacket. 311 $a0-8122-2064-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [179]-189) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tIntroduction: The Rhetorical Wedge Between Preference and Prejudice -- $t1. Race and the Idea of Preference in the New Republic -- $t2. The Rhetoric of Blood and Mixture -- $t3. The Barrier of Good Taste -- $t4. Combating Abolitionism with the Species Argument -- $t5. Making "Miscegenation" -- $tEpilogue: "Miscegenation" Today -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMiscegenation in literature 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aRacially mixed people in literature 606 $aRace relations in literature 606 $aRacism in literature 606 $aRace in literature 610 $aAfrican Studies. 610 $aAfrican-American Studies. 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMiscegenation in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aRacially mixed people in literature. 615 0$aRace relations in literature. 615 0$aRacism in literature. 615 0$aRace in literature. 676 $a810.9/355 700 $aLemire$b Elise Virginia$01550558 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781622103321 996 $a"Miscegenation"$93856614 997 $aUNINA