"Since the colonial era, North America has been defined and continually redefined by the intersections of sex, violence, and love across racial boundaries. Moti

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Connexions investigates the ways in which race and sex intersect, overlap, and inform each other in United States history. An expert team of editors curates tho

Over the course of the eighteenth century, race came to seem as corporeal as sex. Kirsten Fischer has mined unpublished court records and travel literature from

This book is the first to explore the history of a powerful category of illicit sex in America’s past: liaisons between Southern white women and black men. Ma