Talty, Stephen

Talty, Stephen. 2003. Mulatto America At the Crossroads of Black and White Culture—A Social History. New York Harper Collins. 

Like Stephens and Kennedy before him, Talty takes as his primary objective the refutation of a troubling black feminist critique, and Davis again serves as the representative foil. Better said, it is the disposition of the analysis that dismays Talty, what are taken to be overtones of pessimism toward the emotional capacities of whites in general and white men in particular. In his treatment of interracial sexuality in the antebellum United States, he writes. 

To this end, it is not quite correct to say that multiracial discourse is interested in the valorization of interracial sexuality for its own sake, regardless of context and consequences. Such would seem to be the case considering the gentrification of sexual coercion under slavery through which Stephens s euphemistic love. . . under uneven power relations or Kennedy s Orwellian consent-in-confinement is outdone only by Talty s... 

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