Fielder Relative Races

Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-1268-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 322 Seiten

Brigitte Fielder presents an alternative theory of how race is constructed with readings of nineteenth-century personal narratives, novels, plays, stories, poems, and images to illustrate how interracial kinship follows non-heteronormative, non-biological, and non-patrilineal models of inheritance in nineteenth-century literary culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fielder, Brigitte

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Genealogies of Interracial Kinship 1
Part I. Romance. Sexual Kinship
1. Blackface Desdemona, or, the White Woman "Begrimed" 29
2. "Almost Eliza": Reading and Racialization 55
Part II. Reproduction. Genealogies of (Re)racialization
3. Mothers and Mammies: Racial Maternity and Matriliny 85
4. Kinfullness: Mama's Baby, Racial Futures 119
Part III. Residency Domestic. Racial Relations
5. Mary Jemison's Cabin: Domestic Spaces of Racialization 161
6. Racial (Re)Construction: Interracial Kinship and the Interracial Nation 195
Conclusion. "Minus Bloodlines": White Womanhood and Failures of Interracial Kinship 229
Notes 245
Bibliography 283
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Brigitte Fielder is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and coeditor of Against a Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print.