1. Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America
- Author
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McWhorter, Laddelle and McWhorter, Laddelle
- Subjects
- Racism--United States--History, Homophobia--United States--History, Gay rights--United States--History, Minorities--Civil rights--United States--History, African Americans--Civil rights--History, White people--United States--Attitudes--History, Abnormalities, Human--Political aspects--United States--History, Eugenics--United States--History
- Abstract
Does the black struggle for civil rights make common cause with the movement to foster queer community, protest anti-queer violence or discrimination, and demand respect for the rights and sensibilities of queer people? Confronting this emotionally charged question, Ladelle McWhorter reveals how a carefully structured campaign against abnormality in the late 19th and early 20th centuries encouraged white Americans to purge society of so-called biological contaminants, people who were poor, disabled, black.
- Published
- 2009