Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture

by Siobhan B. Somerville

Book Overview

Queering the Color Line 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822324431
• ISBN13: 9780822324430
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"