 | @quot;Miscegenation@quot;: Making Race in America Subjects: American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Miscegenation in literature; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Jefferson Thomas 1743–1826 -- In literature; Racially mixed people in literature; Race relatio; "The sexualizing of race and the racializing of sex have shaped U.S. society in powerful and destructive ways. Lemire's brief, well-researched, and thoughtful book illustrates how key components of this protean process became part of the worldview of nineteenth-century white society."-- Choice Elise Lemire, Professor of Literature at Purchase College, State University of New York, is the author of Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
