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In this work, the author argues that gender and sexuality have always played a crucial role in the questions of black national identity. He identifies the origins of a "national" African-American literature in the founding of the Black Press in 1827 and the beginnings of a novelistic tradition in the antebellum period. Reid-Pharr shows how state conventions, churches, newspapers and novels - predominantly aimed at northeastern black communities - were integral in shaping the ideal of the black family.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Conjugal Union
• Subtitle: The Body, the House, and the Black American
• Author: Robert Reid-Pharr
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 178
• EAN: 9780195104028
• ISBN: 0195104021
• ID: 04513847
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 489 g
• Dimensions: 242 × 162 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. August 1999

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