Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880–1940
by
Julian B Carter
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2007
In this groundbreaking study, Julian Carter demonstrates that between 1880 and 1940, cultural discourses of whiteness and heterosexuality fused to form a new concept of the “normal” American. Gilded Age elites defined white civilization as the triumphant achievement of exceptional people hewing...