TY - BOOK ID - 77910290 TI - The specter of sex : gendered foundations of racial formation in the United States PY - 2009 SN - 1441621377 9781441621375 1438427689 9781438427539 1438427530 9781438427683 PB - New York : State University of New York Press, DB - UniCat KW - Sex role KW - Gender identity KW - Blacks KW - Whites KW - Gender Studies & Sexuality KW - Gender & Ethnic Studies KW - Social Sciences KW - Race identity of whites KW - Racial identity of whites KW - Whiteness (Race identity) KW - Race awareness KW - Black identity KW - Blackness (Race identity) KW - Negritude KW - Race identity of blacks KW - Racial identity of blacks KW - Ethnicity KW - Sex identity (Gender identity) KW - Sexual identity (Gender identity) KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Sex (Psychology) KW - Queer theory KW - History. KW - Race identity. KW - History KW - Race identity KW - Ethnic identity KW - Race identity of Black people KW - Racial identity of Black people KW - Black persons KW - Negroes KW - Ethnology KW - Black people KW - Gender dysphoria UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77910290 AB - Top Three Finalist for the 2010 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize presented by the American Studies AssociationTheories of intersectionality have fundamentally transformed how feminists and critical race scholars understand the relationship between race and gender, but are often limited in their focus on contemporary experiences of interlocking oppressions. In The Specter of Sex, Sally L. Kitch explores the "backstory" of intersectionality theory—the historical formation of the racial and gendered hierarchies that continue to structure U.S. culture today. Kitch uses a genealogical approach to explore how a world already divided by gender ideology became one simultaneously obsessed with judgmental ideas about race, starting in Europe and the English colonies in the late seventeenth century. Through an examination of religious, political, and scientific narratives, public policies and testimonies, laws, court cases, and newspaper accounts, The Specter of Sex provides a rare comparative study of the racial formation of five groups—American Indians, African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and European whites—and reveals gendered patterns that have served white racial dominance and repeated themselves with variations over a two-hundred-year period. ER -