{"title":"“THEY WERE STARTING SOMETHING”","authors":"J. Sciuto","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1kbgs0j.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1kbgs0j.7","url":null,"abstract":"Gaines’s Of Love and Dust(1967) is set in 1948 Louisiana but reflects the immediacy of the civil rights movement. Published in the same year as the landmark civil rights case Loving v. Virginia, which negated the validity of antimiscegenation laws throughout the United States, Gaines’s novel is invested in the subversive potential of individual relationships. Of Love and Dustfocuses on the policing of two interracial couples whose treatment differs according to the race, gender, sex, class, and color of those involved. Marcus Payne, the novel’s revolutionary character, confronts only the plantation’s racial hierarchies, subscribing himself to misogyny and homophobia in his everyday interactions. This, in addition to his self-interest and alienation from the community, results in the failure of his love rebellion. However, the moments when characters are able to put aside their adherence to plantation hierarchies and recognize each other’s humanity reveal the potential for future change.","PeriodicalId":423347,"journal":{"name":"Policing Intimacy","volume":"133 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127431309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“FOR FEAR OF A SCANDAL”","authors":"J. Sciuto","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1kbgs0j.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1kbgs0j.8","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Love, Anger, Madness(1968) is set in post-American occupation Haiti (1934–1957), while also evoking the dictatorship of François Duvalier (1957–1971). The collective fear of scandal in this community connects to the fear of the loss of colonial order among its former beneficiaries, the mulâtres-aristocrates, a distinct biracial class. As shown through the narrator Claire Clamont’s repressed sexuality, the regulation of the individual by the community through secrecy, surveillance, and stereotypes helps to maintain colonial ideologies at the personal and the collective levels. The cycles of hatred and violence inherited from the colonial system remain in 20th century Haiti due to outside forces, including Spanish and French colonialism and U.S. intervention, in addition to the corruption, colorism, and sexism of Duvalier’s administration. Further, writing after the collapse of the Duvalier dynasty, Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat illustrates more overtly the regime’s widespread violence, which disproportionately affected young girls and women.","PeriodicalId":423347,"journal":{"name":"Policing Intimacy","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123418741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“WE WILL HAVE TO WAIT”","authors":"J. Sciuto","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1kbgs0j.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1kbgs0j.5","url":null,"abstract":"In an exploration grounded in the 1865 Black Code and the one-drop rule, this chapter argues that Faulkner’s novels—Absalom, Absalom! (1936), Go Down, Moses(1942,) and Requiem for a Nun(1951)—reveal a deep connection between sexuality and neocolonialism: the circular patterns of abuse and intimacy common to slavery, such as coerced sex across the color line, incest, and the resulting disruption of family bonds, morphed in significant ways in the period following Emancipation but did not disappear. On the surface, the policing of sex, and in particular of racialized and sexualized bodies in Faulkner’s Mississippi, attempted to protect white women; preserve family units; and retain inheritance, land, property, and positions of privilege. However, the true goal was to maintain the color line and preserve colonial ideologies and racist mentalities during periods of upheaval.","PeriodicalId":423347,"journal":{"name":"Policing Intimacy","volume":"119 17","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120823921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“WE ARE TRAWLING IN SILENCES HERE”","authors":"J. Sciuto","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1kbgs0j.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1kbgs0j.9","url":null,"abstract":"Writing in the 1990s and 2000s about Rafael Trujillo’s reign (1930–1961), Julia Alvarez, Junot Díaz, and Nelly Rosario reveal how the control over sexuality—and particularly over women, girls, and marginalized bodies—plays out during a dictator’s regime. Approaching this history from different angles, the writers demonstrate that the reach of the violence and predatorial sexuality modeled by Trujillo extended to affect not only individual lives and experiences, but also families and entire communities. Trujillo’s totalitarian regime was a threat to love, sexuality, and family formations, as portrayed through various characters’ experiences, from the real-life Mirabel sisters in Alvarez’s novel to the fictional Cabral family in Díaz’s book, as well as through the aesthetics and form of the novels. Through the formal affordances of literature, we can explore histories in a fuller way than is enabled by more official accounts.","PeriodicalId":423347,"journal":{"name":"Policing Intimacy","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128602689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Policing IntimacyPub Date : 2021-04-22DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496833440.003.0007
J. Sciuto
{"title":"Looking Back in Resistance, Looking to the Present","authors":"J. Sciuto","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496833440.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496833440.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"The coda centers the thread of resistance running through the work of William Faulkner, Ernest Gaines, Marie Chauvet, Edwidge Danticat, Julia Alvarez, Junot Díaz, and Nelly Rosario in the hope of making space for change in the present, before considering twenty-first-century sites where racialized and sexualized policing happens. In the U.S., the prison industrial complex—especially in shape of privatized prisons and detention centers for undocumented immigrants—are a continuation of the regulation engrained by early slave laws like the Code Noir. The current policies against Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic connect back to the early twentieth-century U.S. occupations of both nations and the anti-Haitianism of Trujillo’s government. Policing Intimacy underscores the necessity of recognizing the colonial continuities running from the past into our present moment and connecting the diverse terrain of Mississippi, Louisiana, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic, as depicted in literature.","PeriodicalId":423347,"journal":{"name":"Policing Intimacy","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129877560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“THERE IS NO IN-BETWEEN”","authors":"J. Sciuto","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1kbgs0j.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1kbgs0j.6","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter analyzes Ernest Gaines’s portrayal of Louisiana plantation society and the structures of racial control that had been inherited from the systems of law, including the 1685 Code Noir, 1724 Code Noir, the Digest of 1808, and the Civil Code of 1825. Catherine Carmier (1964)and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1973) both portray interracial relationships and the complex patterns of policing regulating the interactions of various race and class groups, including the white planter class, white Cajuns, Creoles of color, and black community—a multidirectional self-policing occurring at all levels of society. Creoles of color remained a distinct racial group in many communities, in spite of the shift towards a binary classification system legally instituted by the black codes following the Civil War. This chapter investigates the shift in racial construction that occurred in Louisiana during this period, as illustrated by the novels.","PeriodicalId":423347,"journal":{"name":"Policing Intimacy","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126850171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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