黑色的种马,白色的欲望

Mireille Miller-young, X. Livermon
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这一章讲述了汉娜·伊莱亚斯(Hannah Elias)的故事,她在纽约的跨种族性交易中工作,成为她的白人顾客约翰·r·普拉特(John R. Platt)的情妇。当他们的婚外情被纽约居民曝光后,这位84岁的商人指控这位39岁的黑人离婚者在1896年至1904年期间向他勒索了68.5万美元。虽然对伊莱亚斯的指控暗示了犯罪活动,但法庭证词揭示了17岁(而不是7岁)双方自愿的跨种族关系的轮廓,以及一个来自费城的贫穷、皮肤白皙的黑人女性的复杂轨迹,对一些人来说,她最终成为了一个富有的、种族模糊的纽约房主和女商人。为了证明普拉特是自愿参与他们的关系,并在经济上支持她,而不是被勒索付钱给她,伊莱亚斯明白她需要透露他们亲密关系的轨迹。与流行文化和白人社会中普遍存在的性变态黑人女性的传统形象不同,伊莱亚斯在不顾公众谴责的情况下阐述了自己的故事。她毫无歉意地揭露了她作为一个贫穷的女人、性工作者、企业家和情妇的“低下生活”,这为我们提供了一个独特的机会来探索一个20世纪之交的黑人女性是如何公开描述她的性行为的。伊莱亚斯的故事就是她自己的;她拒绝被定义为一个有权势的白人的受害者。通过这样做,她留下了一组来源,打乱了更大的社会对她的描述,相反,她定义了自己有缺陷的真相。
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Black Stud, White Desire
This chapter addresses the case of Hannah Elias who labored in New York’s interracial sex trade and became the mistress of one her white customers, John R. Platt. When their affair was exposed to New York residents, the eighty-four-year-old businessman charged the thirty-nine-year-old black divorcee with extorting from him over $685,000 between 1896 and 1904. While the charges leveled against Elias suggested criminal activity, the court testimony revealed the contours of a consensual seventeen (rather than seven) year-old interracial relationship and the complex trajectory of a poor, fair-skinned black woman from Philadelphia who eventually became, for some, a rich, racially-ambiguous New York homeowner and businesswoman. In order to prove that Platt had willingly engaged in their relationship and supported her financially rather than being blackmailed into paying her, Elias understood that she needed to reveal the trajectory of their intimate liaisons. Defying the stock image of the sexually deviant black woman prevalent in popular culture and white society, Elias articulated this narrative without regard for public censure. Her unapologetic revelations about her “low life” as a poor woman, sex worker, entrepreneur, and mistress provide a unique opportunity to explore how one turn-of-the-twentieth century black woman publicly framed the story of her sexual behavior. Elias’s story was her own; she refused to be defined as victimized by a powerful white man. By doing so, she left a set of sources that disrupt how the larger society scripted her and, instead, defined her own flawed truth.
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