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

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

A radical revision of the politics of race and sexuality within racial capitalism, Uncoupling American Empire provides an original cultural genealogy of how the institutionalization of marriage shaped imagined relationships among working people who were seen as sexually deviant in nineteenth-century U.S. imperial cultures. Departing from the longstanding focus on domest...