{"product_id":"queering-the-color-line-race-and-the-invention-of-homosexuality-in-american-culture-9780822324430","title":"Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture","description":"\u003ci\u003eQueering the Color Line\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003eAt about the same time that the 1896 Supreme Court \u003ci\u003ePlessy v. Ferguson\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eA Florida Enchantment\u003c\/i\u003e, the novels of Pauline E. Hopkins, James Weldon Johnson's \u003ci\u003eAutobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man\u003c\/i\u003e, and Jean Toomer's fiction and autobiographical writings, including \u003ci\u003eCane\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eQueering the Color Line\u003c\/i\u003e will have broad appeal across disciplines including African American studies, gay and lesbian studies, literary criticism, cultural studies, cinema studies, and gender studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-1759480\"\u003eSiobhan B. Somerville\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/13\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.99h x 6.16w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822324430\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822324431\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC012000\"\u003eLGBTQ+ Studies | Gay Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC032000\"\u003eGender Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PSY\"\u003ePsychology\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PSY016000\"\u003eHuman Sexuality (see also Social Science | Human Sexuality)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSiobhan B. Somerville is Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies at Purdue University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44537409208557,"sku":"9780822324430","price":41.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_8c2b68f0-8a59-469c-8e05-8cb492390318.jpg?v=1701442353","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/es\/products\/queering-the-color-line-race-and-the-invention-of-homosexuality-in-american-culture-9780822324430","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}