ISBN:
978-0-8166-4128-4
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 175 S.
Series Statement:
Critical American studies series
DDC:
813.509896073008664
Keywords:
Baldwin, James 〈1924-1987〉 / Go tell it on the mountain
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Ellison, Ralph / Invisible man
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Morrison, Toni / Sula
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Wright, Richard 〈1908-1960〉 / Native son
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Baldwin, James 〈1924-1987〉
;
Ellison, Ralph
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Morrison, Toni
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Wright, Richard 〈1908-1960〉
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Geschichte 1900-2000
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Geschichte 1940-2000
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Chefs-d'œuvre (Littérature)
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Homosexualité et littérature - États-Unis - Histoire - 20e siècle
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Homosexuels - États-Unis - Vie intellectuelle
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Homosexuels dans la littérature
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Homosexuels noirs américains - Vie intellectuelle
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Noirs américains dans la littérature
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Roman américain - 20e siècle - Histoire et critique
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Roman américain - Auteurs noirs américains - Histoire et critique
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Écrits d'homosexuels américains - Histoire et critique
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Geschichte
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African American gays Intellectual life
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African Americans in literature
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American fiction African American authors
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History and criticism
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American fiction History and criticism 20th century
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Canon (Literature)
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Gays in literature
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Gays Intellectual life
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Gays' writings, American History and criticism
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Homosexuality and literature History 20th century
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Literatur.
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Homosexualität.
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Schwarze.
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USA
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USA.
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Literatur
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Homosexualität
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Schwarze
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Geschichte 1940-2000
Abstract:
The sociology of race relations in America typically describes an intersection of poverty, race, and economic discrimination. But what is missing from the picture - sexual difference - can be as instructive as what is present. In this ambitious work, Roderick A. Ferguson reveals how the discourses of sexuality are used to articulate theories of racial difference in the field of sociology. He shows how canonical sociology - Gunnar Myrdal, Ernest Burgess, Robert Park, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and William Julius Wilson - has measured African Americans' unsuitability for a liberal capitalist order in terms of their adherence to the norms of a heterosexual and patriarchal nuclear family model. In short, to the extent that African Americans' culture and behavior deviated from those norms, they would not achieve economic and racial equality. Aberrations in Black tells the story of canonical sociology's regulation of sexual difference as part of its general regulation of African American culture. Ferguson places this story within other stories - the narrative of capital's emergence and development, the histories of Marxism and revolutionary nationalism, and the novels that depict the gendered and sexual idiosyncrasies of African American culture - works by Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and Toni Morrison. In turn, this book tries to present another story - one in which people who presumably manifest the dysfunctions of capitalism are reconsidered as indictments of the norms of state, capital, and social science. Ferguson includes the first-ever discussion of a new archival discovery - a never-published chapter of Invisible Man that deals with a gay character in a way that complicates and illuminates Ellison's project.
Note:
With bibliographical references and index
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