Race critical theories brings together many of the key contributors to critical theorizing about race and racism from the past twenty years of the twentieth century. Each text is accompanied by a fresh statement regarding the political context of the original contribution, the personal motivations of the authors, and the implications and effects of race critical scholarship.
Major Problems in American History series introduces the readers to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. This volume contains a number of chapters with documents and essays about: Sexual cultures and encounters in the New World, regulating sexuality in the Anglo-American colonies, gender conflict and sex reform in the early nineteenth century, sexuality, race, and violence in slavery and freedom, love and initimacy in nineteenth-century America, free love, free speech, and sex consorship, prostitution and working-class sexuality, politics of reproduction, heterosexual norms and homosexual identities in popular culture, open secrets in Cold War cinema, sexual revolution, sexually transmitted diseases, and sexual identities, family matters, and border crossings in contemporary America.