Mason Stokes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3612986 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mason Stokes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mason |
| FAMILY NAME | Stokes |
| SIGNATURE | STOKES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Skidmore College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
No Tea, No Shade
Reviewed by: No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies ed. by E. Patrick Johnson Mason Stokes E. Patrick Johnson, ed. No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies. Durham: Duke UP, 2017. 422 pp. $28.95. Late in this fascinating collection, Kaila Adia Story offers a useful summary of how we got to this place, this time. She returns to seventies-era black lesbian feminism, to the first waves of (white) queer theory that followe…
From Polluted Homosexual to the Normal Gay
There is an unfortunate irony embedded in the recent spate of critical attention to heterosexuality, particularly if we see this attention as part of a larger academic interest in “unmarked” and “naturalized” categories. Scholars across disciplines and fields are busy interrogating those hegemonic structures whose power is derived from their uncanny ability to avoid the glare of the spotlight. The recent growth industry in “whiteness studies” pro…
There is Heterosexuality
Presents literary criticism of the novels "There is Confusion" and "Plum Bun" by Jessie Fauset focusing on their portrayal of the connections between love and desire, heterosexuality, and race in the 1920s U.S. The impact of Fauset's relationship with sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois on the themes of these works is also evaluated. Broadly, the author is concerned with the works' connection to the country's changing sexual climate during this time
White Enough to Be American? Race Mixing, Indigenous People, and the Boundaries of State and Nation
Race mixing between whites and African Americans has long been a productive fetish of literary critics and historians. Attention to such racial mixture has paid off in a litany of crucial insights, even as those insights have now become a sort of commonsense about the American racial landscape: biracial Americans make “race” visible as a cultural construction; they challenge and expose as absurd monoracial conceptions of racial identity; they hig…
Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance
In Wallace Thurman's roman à clefInfants of the Spring (1932), the artist Paul Arbian's work is described as "nothing but highly colored phalli." This is meant, I think, to be dismissive. As critics have noted, Paul Arbian is modeled on Thurman's friend and fellow artist Richard Bruce Nugent ("Arbian" sounds out Nugent's initials, RBN). Now, thanks to the publication of Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruc…
The Color of Sex
Journal Article The Color of Sex: Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy. By Mason Stokes. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. viii, 252 pp. Cloth, $54.95, ISBN 0- 8223-2626-4. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8223- 2620-5.) Get access Jennifer DeVere Brody Jennifer DeVere Brody Northwestern UniversityEvanston, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89,…
Someone's in the Garden with Eve
Someone's in the Garden with Eve: Race, Religion, and the American Fall Mason Stokes* (bio) America's so-called "Negro problem" has always been, at the same time, a theological problem. W. E. B. Du Bois put this clearly when, in 1913, he called the church "the strongest seat of racial and color prejudice." 1 "The Negro problem is the test of the church," he wrote, and since American Christianity "was the bulwark of American slavery," it is hard t…
Someone's in the Garden with Eve
Someone's in the Garden with Eve: Race, Religion, and the American Fall Mason Stokes* (bio) America's so-called "Negro problem" has always been, at the same time, a theological problem. W. E. B. Du Bois put this clearly when, in 1913, he called the church "the strongest seat of racial and color prejudice." 1 "The Negro problem is the test of the church," he wrote, and since American Christianity "was the bulwark of American slavery," it is hard t…
Someone's in the Garden with Eve
Someone's in the Garden with Eve: Race, Religion, and the American Fall Mason Stokes* (bio) America's so-called "Negro problem" has always been, at the same time, a theological problem. W. E. B. Du Bois put this clearly when, in 1913, he called the church "the strongest seat of racial and color prejudice." 1 "The Negro problem is the test of the church," he wrote, and since American Christianity "was the bulwark of American slavery," it is hard t…
The Color of Sex
Journal Article The Color of Sex: Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy. By Mason Stokes. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. viii, 252 pp. Cloth, $54.95, ISBN 0- 8223-2626-4. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8223- 2620-5.) Get access Jennifer DeVere Brody Jennifer DeVere Brody Northwestern UniversityEvanston, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89,…
Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance
In Wallace Thurman's roman à clefInfants of the Spring (1932), the artist Paul Arbian's work is described as "nothing but highly colored phalli." This is meant, I think, to be dismissive. As critics have noted, Paul Arbian is modeled on Thurman's friend and fellow artist Richard Bruce Nugent ("Arbian" sounds out Nugent's initials, RBN). Now, thanks to the publication of Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruc…
White Enough to Be American? Race Mixing, Indigenous People, and the Boundaries of State and Nation
Race mixing between whites and African Americans has long been a productive fetish of literary critics and historians. Attention to such racial mixture has paid off in a litany of crucial insights, even as those insights have now become a sort of commonsense about the American racial landscape: biracial Americans make “race” visible as a cultural construction; they challenge and expose as absurd monoracial conceptions of racial identity; they hig…
There is Heterosexuality
Presents literary criticism of the novels "There is Confusion" and "Plum Bun" by Jessie Fauset focusing on their portrayal of the connections between love and desire, heterosexuality, and race in the 1920s U.S. The impact of Fauset's relationship with sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois on the themes of these works is also evaluated. Broadly, the author is concerned with the works' connection to the country's changing sexual climate during this time
From Polluted Homosexual to the Normal Gay
There is an unfortunate irony embedded in the recent spate of critical attention to heterosexuality, particularly if we see this attention as part of a larger academic interest in “unmarked” and “naturalized” categories. Scholars across disciplines and fields are busy interrogating those hegemonic structures whose power is derived from their uncanny ability to avoid the glare of the spotlight. The recent growth industry in “whiteness studies” pro…
No Tea, No Shade
Reviewed by: No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies ed. by E. Patrick Johnson Mason Stokes E. Patrick Johnson, ed. No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies. Durham: Duke UP, 2017. 422 pp. $28.95. Late in this fascinating collection, Kaila Adia Story offers a useful summary of how we got to this place, this time. She returns to seventies-era black lesbian feminism, to the first waves of (white) queer theory that followe…
Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Art history (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works)