Relative races : genealogies of interracial kinship in nineteenth-century America /

RELATIVE RACES surveys a body of 19th-century literature to trace alternative genealogies of racialization in kinship formations. Writing against the prescription of race as passed down from generation to generation, Brigitte Fielder argues that racialization occurs through adoption, sexual relation...

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Main Author:	Fielder, Brigitte (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, [2020]
Subjects:	Race in literature. American literature > History and criticism. Race relations in literature. Literature and race > United States. Race. African Americans > Race identity.