Uncoupling American Empire : Cultural Politics of Deviance and Unequal Difference, 1890-1910.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Unfree Labor and the Geopolitics of Marriage and Sexuality -- Mapping Marriage and "Slavery" in the Shadow of Empire -- Toward a Beginning of Cultural Genealogy of Unequal Difference -- Part I: Uncertain Domesticity -- 1. Sexual Deviance and Racial Excess -- The Limits of Transgression: White Femininity in Women's College Fiction -- Spectacles of Race as Scenes of Education in the Shadow of Empires -- 2. Orientalism, Black Domesticity, and Imperial Ambivalence -- Colored Soldiers and the U.S. Empire -- Imperial Ambivalence in Black Orientalism -- Dora, the Forgotten Working Girl: The Racial Contradictions of Marriage and Citizenship -- Domesticity Under the Shadow of Slavery: Capitalism and Its Reproduction -- Of One Blood, Yet Different: The Contradictions and Limits of Antiracist Internationalism -- Part II: Transpacific Archives Unbound -- 3. "Yellow Slavery" and Sensational Violence -- The Absence of the U.S. Empire and the "Chinese Question" -- "Yellow Slavery" and Sensational Journalism -- Narratives of Rescue and Sui Sin Far's "Lin John" (1899) -- 4. Domesticating the Aliens: Sentimental Benevolence -- Heterosexual Love as the Path to Emancipation -- "Benevolent Ethnography" in Late-Nineteenth-Century California Magazines -- From Slavery to Racialized Domesticity -- Almost Becoming American, but Not Quite -- "United in Another City": The Passion of a Slave Girl -- 5. Domesticity, Race, and Colonial Modernity -- Spectacles of the New Frontiers -- Enslavement, Conversion, and Liberation -- Other Passages -- Postscript: The Obama Paradox -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

A cultural studies consideration of marriage and those considered "deviant" in the nineteenth-century American imagination.

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