Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture (Series Q)

by SiobhanB.Somerville (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2000

  $26.60

  Analysing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, the author argues that the emerging understanding of homosexuality depended on the context of the black/white colour line, the dominant system of racial distinction during the late nineteenth century.