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Mengrassen in de literatuur --- Miscegenation in literature --- Race dans la littérature --- Race in literature --- Race mixte dans la littérature --- Race relations in literature --- Racially mixed people in literature --- Racism in literature --- Racisme dans la littérature --- Racisme in de literatuur --- Ras in de literatuur --- Rassenverhoudingen in de literatuur --- Relations raciales dans la littérature --- American literature --- Literature and society --- Miscegenation in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Race relations in literature. --- Racially mixed people in literature. --- Racism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- 19th century --- History and criticism --- United States --- 18th century --- Jefferson, Thomas --- Cooper, James Fenimore --- Alcott, Louisa May

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In the years between the Revolution and the Civil War, as the question of black political rights was debated more and more vociferously, descriptions and pictorial representations of whites coupling with blacks proliferated in the North. Novelists, short-story writers, poets, journalists, and political cartoonists imagined that political equality would be followed by widespread inter-racial sex and marriage. Legally possible yet socially unthinkable, this "amalgamation" of the races would manifest itself in the perverse union of "whites" with "blacks," the latter figured as ugly, animal-like, and foul-smelling. In Miscegenation, Elise Lemire reads these literary and visual depictions for what they can tell us about the connection between the racialization of desire and the social construction of race.Previous studies of the prohibition of interracial sex and marriage in the U.S. have focused on either the slave South or the post-Reconstruction period. Looking instead to the North, and to such texts as the Federalist poetry about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans, Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue," and the 1863 pamphlet in which the word "miscegenation" was first used, Lemire examines the steps by which whiteness became a sexual category and same-race desire came to seem a biological imperative.

American literature --- Miscegenation in literature. --- Literature and society --- Racially mixed people in literature. --- Race relations in literature. --- Racism in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Mulattoes in literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- Jefferson, Thomas, --- In literature. --- African Studies. --- African-American Studies. --- American History. --- American Studies. --- Cultural Studies. --- Literature.