Miscegenation: Making Race in America

by Elise Lemire

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812220641
• ISBN13: 9780812220643
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"