A study of the racialized construction of heterosexual normality based on the analysis of medical pamphlets, marriage manuals, and sex-instructional literature.

Julian Carter is Assistant Professor of Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts.

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. The Search for Norma 1
1. Barbarians Are Not Nervous 42
2. The Marriage Crisis 75
3. Birds, Bees, and the Future of the Race: Making Whiteness Normal 118
Epilogue. Regarding Racial/Erotic Politics 153
Notes 161
Bibliography 195
Index 211