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Author McGrath, Ann, 1956- author.

Title Illicit love : interracial sex and marriage in the United States and Australia / Ann McGrath.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xxxi, 503 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Borderlands and transcultural studies
Borderlands and transcultural studies.
Summary "Illicit Love is a history of love, sex, and marriage between Indigenous peoples and settler citizens at the heart of two settler colonial nations, the United States and Australia. Award-winning historian Ann McGrath illuminates interracial relationships from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century through stories of romance, courtship, and marriage between Indigenous peoples and colonizers in times of nation formation. The romantic relationships of well-known and ordinary interracial couples provide the backdrop against which McGrath discloses the "marital middle ground" that emerged as a primary threat to European colonial and racial supremacy in the Atlantic and Pacific Worlds from the Age of Revolution to the Progressive Era. These relationships include the controversial courtship between white, Connecticut-born Harriett Gold and southern Cherokee Elias Boudinot; the Australian missionary Ernest Gribble and his efforts to socially segregate the settler and aboriginal population, only to be overcome by his romantic impulses for an aboriginal woman, Jeannie; the irony of Cherokee leader John Ross's marriage to a white woman, Mary Brian Stapler, despite his opposition to interracial marriages in the Cherokee Nation; and the efforts among ordinary people in the imperial borderlands of both the United States and Australia to circumvent laws barring interracial love, sex, and marriage. Illicit Love reveals how marriage itself was used by disparate parties for both empowerment and disempowerment and came to embody the contradictions of imperialism. A tour de force of settler colonial history, McGrath's study demonstrates vividly how interracial relationships between Indigenous and colonizing peoples were more frequent and threatening to nation-states in the Atlantic and Pacific worlds than historians have previously acknowledged"-- Provided by publisher.
"Wedding New Worlds revises histories of interracial love, sex, and marriage amid legal and cultural barriers created to regulate and make illegal the liaisons between indigenous and non-indigenous people in Australia and the US from the late 18th century to the 20th century"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1; 1. Harriett Gold and Elias Boudinot; 2. Ernest Gribble and Jeannie; Part 2; 3. Socrates, Cherokee Sovereignty, and the Regulation of White Men; 4. John Ross and Mary Bryan Stapler; Part 3; 5. Husbands under Surveillance; 6. Consent and Aboriginal Wives; Part 4; 7. Polygamy's New Worlds; 8. Entwined Sovereignties and the Great Unwedding; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About Ann McGrath; Series List; Other Works by Ann McGrath.
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Subject Interracial marriage -- United States -- History.
Interracial marriage.
United States.
History.
Interracial marriage -- Australia -- History.
Australia.
Miscegenation -- United States -- History.
Miscegenation.
Miscegenation -- Australia -- History.
Indigenous people -- United States -- History.
Indigenous peoples -- Australia -- History.
Indigenous peoples.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: McGrath, Ann (Ann Margaret). Illicit love 9780803238251 (DLC) 2015023634 (OCoLC)907651231
ISBN 9780803285415 (electronic book)
0803285418 (electronic book)
9780803238251
0803238258
9780803285422 (mobi)