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Relative Races - Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback)
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Relative Races - Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback)
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In Relative Races, Brigitte Fielder presents an alternative theory
of how race is ascribed. Contrary to notions of genealogies by
which race is transmitted from parents to children, the examples
Fielder discusses from nineteenth-century literature, history, and
popular culture show how race can follow other directions:
Desdemona becomes less than fully white when she is smudged with
Othello's blackface, a white woman becomes Native American when she
is adopted by a Seneca family, and a mixed-race baby casts doubt on
the whiteness of his mother. Fielder shows that the genealogies of
race are especially visible in the racialization of white women,
whose whiteness often depends on their ability to reproduce white
family and white supremacy. Using black feminist and queer
theories, Fielder presents readings of personal narratives, novels,
plays, stories, poems, and images to illustrate how interracial
kinship follows non-heteronormative, non-biological, and
non-patrilineal models of inheritance in nineteenth-century
literary culture.
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