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BL
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701359
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b523548
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| Main Entry
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Lemire, Elise Virginia
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| Title & Author
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Miscegenation : : making race in America /\ Elise Lemire
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| Publication Statement
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Philadelphia :: University of Pennsylvania Press,, [2002]
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, ©2002
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| Series Statement
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[New cultural studies]
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| Page. NO
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204 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0812220641
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: 0812236645
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: 9780812220643
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: 9780812236644
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| Notes
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Series statement on jacket
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-189) and index
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| Contents
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Race and the idea of preference in the New Republic: The port folio poems about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings -- The rhetoric of blood and mixture: Cooper's "man without a cross" -- The barrier of good taste: avoiding a sojourn in the city of amalgamation in the wake of abolitionism -- Combating abolitionism with the species argument: race economic anxieties in Poe's Philadelphia -- Making "miscegenation": Alcott's Paul Frere and the limits of brotherhood after emancipation
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| Abstract
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"In the years between the Revolution and the Civil War, as the question of black political rights was debated more and more vociferously, descriptions and pictorial representations of whites coupling with blacks proliferated in the North. Novelists, short-story writers, poets, journalists, and political cartoonists imagined that political equality would be followed by widespread inter-racial sex and marriage. Legally possible yet socially unthinkable, this "amalgamation" of the races would manifest itself in the perverse union of whites with blacks, the latter figured as ugly, animal-like, and foul-smelling. In "Miscegenation," Elise Lemire reads these literary and visual depictions for what they can tell us about the connection between the racialization of desire and the social construction of race."--Jacket
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| Subject
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Jefferson, Thomas,1743-1826-- In literature
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American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism
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Literature and society-- United States-- History-- 19th century
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Miscegenation in literature
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Race in literature
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Race relations in literature
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Racially mixed people in literature
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Racism in literature
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| Dewey Classification
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810.9/355
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| LC Classification
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PS217.M57L46 2002
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