| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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Book Review

The Color of Sex: Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy. By Mason Stokes. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. viii, 252 pp. Cloth, $54.95, ISBN 0-8223-2626-4. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8223-2620-5.)

Mason Stokes's The Color of Sex studies "whiteness and textual white supremacy" in order to "expose . . . how the omnivorous energies of whiteness fracture any strictly binary model of racist domination, on the one hand, and antiracist resistance on the other." In a series of ambitious if incomplete readings of numerous overlooked (because?) overtly white supremacist texts, Stokes brings to light key issues in American studies. The book 1

offers these texts from plantation romances to theological tracts to popular film—as a shifting, complicated, yet continuous record of how white Americans lived and commodified racist ideologies in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

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