{"id":8538,"date":"2010-08-27T19:40:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T19:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=8538"},"modified":"2014-12-30T00:12:01","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T00:12:01","slug":"between-hoax-and-hope-miscegenation-and-nineteenth-century-interracial-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=8538","title":{"rendered":"Between Hoax and Hope: Miscegenation and Nineteenth-Century Interracial Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1741-4113.2006.00345.x\" target=\"_blank\">Between Hoax and Hope: Miscegenation and Nineteenth-Century Interracial Romance<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/10.1111\/(ISSN)1741-4113\" target=\"_blank\">Literature Compass<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/lico.2006.3.issue-4\/issuetoc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 3, Issue 4<\/a> (July 2006)<br \/>\npages 648\u2013657<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1741-4113.2006.00345.x\" target=\"_blank\">10.1111\/j.1741-4113.2006.00345.x<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manchester.edu\/academics\/departments\/english\/faculty.htm#Ings\" target=\"_blank\">Katharine Nicholson Ings<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>Manchester College, North Manchester, Indiana<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This essay surveys recent scholarship on interracial romance during the nineteenth century using the hoax <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=10262\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Miscegenation<\/em><\/a> pamphlet of 1863 as a lens. An anonymous and ironic piece of writing that promoted race-mixing from a deceptively Republican perspective, <em>Miscegenation<\/em> coined the titular term, newly situating interracial relationships within a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Latinate\" target=\"_blank\">Latinate<\/a>, pseudo-scientific framework. It also encouraged romance between white women and black men, an endorsement that was designed to enrage its white male readership but in fact gave hope to some white women who were unable to articulate their interracial desire publicly. Using this double focus, I explore how nineteenth-century authors of interracial romance borrowed the language of science, such as \u201chybridity\u201d and \u201ccrossing\u201d; how they employed the concept of \u201cblood-mixing\u201d as both sexual and medicinal (via transfusions); and I read the <em>Miscegenation<\/em> pamphlet as a kind of scientific romance fiction itself.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1741-4113.2006.00345.x\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between Hoax and Hope: Miscegenation and Nineteenth-Century Interracial Romance Literature Compass Volume 3, Issue 4 (July 2006) pages 648\u2013657 DOI: 10.1111\/j.1741-4113.2006.00345.x Katharine Nicholson Ings, Associate Professor of English Manchester College, North Manchester, Indiana This essay surveys recent scholarship on interracial romance during the nineteenth century using the hoax Miscegenation pamphlet of 1863 as a lens. 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