LEADER 04492oam 22007574 450 001 9910786523803321 005 20140508045438.0 010 $a0-8223-7876-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822378761 035 $a(CKB)3710000000133394 035 $a(OCoLC)891395108 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10887936 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001062858 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11583561 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001062858 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11017957 035 $a(PQKB)10950627 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3007878 035 $a(OCoLC)1139388609 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse79248 035 $a879384733 035 $a(DE-B1597)554156 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822378761 035 $a(OCoLC)1226679192 035 $a(PPN)200759361 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000133394 100 $a20140508d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aQueering the color line $erace and the invention of homosexuality in American culture /$fSiobhan Somerville 210 1$aDurham :$cDuke University Press,$d2000. 215 $a1 online resource (273 p.) 225 1 $aSeries Q 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8223-2443-1 311 $a0-8223-2407-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [221]-247) and index. 327 $tScientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body --$tThe Queer Career of Jim Crow: Racial and Sexual Transformation in Early Cinema --$tInverting the Tragic Mulatta Tradition: Race and Homosexuality in Pauline E. Hopkins's Fiction --$tDouble Lives on the Color Line: "Perverse" Desire in The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man --$t"Queer to Myself As I Am to You": Jean Toomer, Racial Disidentification, and Queer Reading. 330 $a"Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was "invented" as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, Siobhan B. Somerville argues that the emerging understanding of homosexuality depended on the context of the black/white "color line," the dominant system of racial distinction during this period. This book thus critiques and revises tendencies to treat race and sexuality as unrelated categories of analysis, showing instead that race has historically been central to the cultural production of homosexuality. At about the same time that the 1896 Supreme Court Plessy v. Ferguson decision hardened the racialized boundary between black and white, prominent trials were drawing the public's attention to emerging categories of sexual identity. Somerville argues that these concurrent developments were not merely parallel but in fact inextricably interrelated and that the discourses of racial and sexual "deviance" were used to reinforce each other's terms. She provides original readings of such texts as Havelock Ellis's late nineteenth-century work on "sexual inversion," the 1914 film A Florida Enchantment, the novels of Pauline E. Hopkins, James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, and Jean Toomer's fiction and autobiographical writings, including Cane. Through her analyses of these texts and her archival research, Somerville contributes to the growing body of scholarship that focuses on discovering the intersections of gender, race, and sexuality." -- Publisher's description. 410 0$aSeries Q. 606 $aGender identity$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aRace awareness$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aHomosexuality in literature 606 $aHomosexuality in motion pictures 606 $aRace relations in literature 606 $aRace relations in motion pictures 606 $aCulture in motion pictures 615 0$aGender identity$xHistory. 615 0$aRace awareness$xHistory. 615 0$aHomosexuality in literature. 615 0$aHomosexuality in motion pictures. 615 0$aRace relations in literature. 615 0$aRace relations in motion pictures. 615 0$aCulture in motion pictures. 676 $a305.3/0973 700 $aSomerville$b Siobhan B$01567784 801 0$bNDD 801 1$bNDD 801 2$bNDD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786523803321 996 $aQueering the color line$93839454 997 $aUNINA