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Press, Marcia. "That Black Man-White Woman Thing: Images of an American Taboo," Indiana University, May 1989. Advisor: Albert Wertheim (23, 2, 12)
The idea or image of intimate contact between a black man and a white woman has been an almost obsessive concern in 20th-century American culture, routinely reiterated in literature, popular fiction, television and film, and political and social science discourse. Through a “myth/symbol” analysis, I explore the complex race/gender motifs and archetypes which surround the black man-white woman taboo. I conclude that the cultural text inscribed by this multilayered mythology can be read as an on-going discourse, carried out primarily by men, in which the rhetoric of gender hierarchies, inherent in the taboo, is used to negotiate the racial terms of American “manhood” identity.
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