Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in North America

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 thought-provoking articles that explore how to view the American past through the lens of race and sexuality studies. Chapters range from the prerevolutionary era to today to grapple with an array of captivating issues: how descriptions of bodies shaped colonial Americans' understandings of race and sex; same-sex sexual desire and violence within slavery; whiteness in gay and lesbian history; college women's agitation against heterosexual norms in the 1940s and 1950s; the ways society used sexualized bodies to sculpt ideas of race and racial beauty; how Mexican silent film icon Ramon Navarro masked his homosexuality with his racial identity; and sexual representation in mid-twentieth-century black print pop culture. The result is both an enlightening foray into ignored areas and an elucidation of new perspectives that challenge us to reevaluate what we "know" of our own history. Contributors: Sharon Block, Susan K. Cahn, Stephanie M. H. Camp, J. B. Carter, Ernesto Chávez, Brian Connolly, Jim Downs, Marisa J. Fuentes, Leisa D. Meyer, Wanda S. Pillow, Marc Stein, and Deborah Gray White.

• Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality (The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era)
• American Sexual Histories
• City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920
• Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas (Gender and Slavery Ser.)
• A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Eighth Edition: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
• Transgender History, second edition: The Roots of Today's Revolution
• Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
• Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America (Early American Studies)
• Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History
• The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement