"In editing this collection, Martha Hodes has performed an
invaluable service to those of us in the profession who endeavor to
teach what has been the focus of our own scholarship: race and
sex."
--"The Journal of Southern History"
"Important. . . . The breadth of human experience and historical
subfields traversed by the authors is astonishing."
--"Journal of Social History"
"Hodes has compiled a thoughtful collection of essays which
explore the implications of interracial sexual activity from the
colonial period to the late 20th century."
--"Virginia Quarterly Review"Since pre-colonial days, 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 some of
America's most sacred beliefs and prejudices.
Sex, Love, Race provides a historical foundation for
contemporary discussions of sex across racial lines, which, despite
the numbers of interracial marriages and multiracial children,
remains a controversial issue today. The first historical anthology
to focus solely and widely on the subject, Sex, Love, Race gathers
new essays by both younger and well-known scholars which probe why
and how the specter of sex across racial boundaries has so
threatened Americans of all colors and classes.
Traversing the whole of American history, from liaisons among
Indians, Europeans, and Africans to twentieth-century social
scientists' fascination with sex between "Orientals" and whites,
the essays cover a range of regions, races, ethnicities, and sexual
orientations. In so doing, Sex, Love, Race, sketches a larger
portrait of the overlappingconstruction of racial, ethnic, and
sexual identities in America.
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