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OverviewSince pre-colonial days, North America has been both torn apart and united by love, sex and marriage across racial boundaries. Whether motivated by violent conquest, economics, lust or love, such unions have disturbed sacred beliefs and prejudices. This work aims to provide an historical foundation for contemporary discussion of a topic which, despite the numbers of marriages and children of mixed race, is still controversial. The contributors investigate why and how the spectre of sexual relations across racial boundaries has so threatened Americans of all colours and classes. Traversing centuries of American history, from liaisons among Indians, Europeans and Africans to 20th-century social scientists' fascination with sexual relations between ""Orientals"" and whites, the essays cover a range of regions, races, ethnicities and sexual orientations. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Martha HodesPublisher: New York University Press Imprint: New York University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 4.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 1.179kg ISBN: 9780814735572ISBN 10: 0814735576 Pages: 416 Publication Date: 01 January 1999 Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Professional & Vocational , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviews<p> Important. . . . The breadth of human experience and historical subfields traversed by the authors is astonishing. Important. . . . The breadth of human experience and historical subfields traversed by the authors is astonishing. - Journal of Social History , Author InformationMartha Hodes is Assistant Professor of History at New York University and author of White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century American South. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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