| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina. By Kirsten Fischer. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. xiv, 265 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8014-3822-5. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8014-8679-3.)

With this book, Kirsten Fischer joins scholars who have demonstrated the interconnection of race and gender in the evolving social hierarchy of the early South (for other examples, see Catherine Clinton and Michele Gillespie, eds., The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South, 1997). Fischer's special contribution is twofold: a focus on North Carolina and on the ways 'ordinary people' enacted gender and race relations in their everyday lives. She concludes that those interactions 'contributed to the idea of race as a fixed reality,' supplanting more cultural notions of race over the course of the eighteenth century. . . .

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