ISSN:
0155-977X
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
Social analysis : the international journal of cultural and social practice
Publ. der Quelle:
New York, NY [u.a.] : Berghahn Journals
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 60, No. 2 (2016), p. 31
DDC:
300
Abstract:
By focusing on the debate about cousin marriage that unfolded over the mid- to late-nineteenth century in the United States, this article explores the capacity of kinship to produce difference as well as sameness, exclusion as well as inclusion. I follow the cultural logic of temperaments through which the relative value of cousin versus non-kin marriages was debated. I also examine the rhetoric that linked these contrasting forms of marriage with contrasting political formations-specifically those of 'backward' hierarchical monarchies and 'progressive' egalitarian democratic republics. This marital and political logic was countered by the political economy of race, which made evident the forms of racial exclusion that defined the boundaries of marriage, national belonging, equality, and democracy in nineteenth- century America.
DOI:
10.3167/sa.2016.600203
URL:
http://search.proquest.com/docview/1822613975
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