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INDEX abolition and abolitionists, 4,amalgamation allegedly proposedby, 25; attacks upon, 52,- and class, 243 (n. 31); corporeal tactics of, 8, 50, 54-56, 217-18; and the politics of the body, 42,and scientific essentialism, 28; and selfdiscipline , 97, 98; and the temperance movement, 93, 96-97; women among, 50, 51, 52, 55-56, 249 (n. 10), 250 (n. 30); and women's rights, 28 Aboriginals. See Native Americans abortion, 31, 209, 244 (n. 47) "Address on Emancipation" (Emerson): Anglo-Saxon identity established in, 138; dialectical style in, 109,emancipation viewed in, 129, 137; race viewed in, 109, 136; racial language in, 126, 127, 128, 129 African Americans: corporeal identity of, 28, 243 (n. 34); and craniometry, 22; excluded from American identity, 2i; and the formation of white identity, 27-28; and the scientific classification of race, i, 18-19, 23-24; stereotypesof, 23, 98; as subjects in medical practice, 209-10, 243 (n. 34). See also women, African American Agassiz, Louise, 15, 132, 259-60 (n. 87) Alcott, William A., 38, 40, 122, 179-80, 181 Alexander, Francis, 5 3 "Almost Constantly Either Traveling or Speaking" (Harper), 79 amalgamation, 25-26, 164, 243 (n.29) American Anatomies (Wiegman), 4, 41 American Confederacyof Southern States, 247 (n. 97) "American Scholar, The" (Emerson), 114 American Slavery as It Is (Weld and Grimke), 251 (n. 44) Andrews, William, 212, 218 antebellum era, 2, 7, 16-18, 242 (n. 15) anthropology, 247 (n. 101) antiabolitionists, 50 antiabortion movement, 31 antiessentialism, 6 anti-immigration movement, 43 anti-onanism, 38-39, 182, 246 (n.77) antislavery. See abolition and abolitionists Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women, 50 antislavery novel, 204 Appeal in Favor of That Classof Americans Called Africans, An (Child), 47, 49, 81, 127, 231; and abolition, 8; criticism of, 5 2; feminine discourse violated by, 251 (n. 48); interracial marriage laws critiqued in, 67;Negro inferiority refuted in, 67-68; slave law analyzed in, 63, 64-65; southern testimony used by, 65, 251 (n. 44); spectatorship in, 56, 60, 74; the tortured body in, 59-69, 250-51 (n. 41) Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States, An (Grimke), 50-51 288 I N D E X "Aristotle/7 38, 39 assimilation, 22, 164 "At Washington" (Whittier), 254 (n.22) "Autobiographical Romance" (Fuller), 147 autobiography, 204, 220.See also slave narrative Autobiography (Gough), 96, 98 Bacon, Lord, 19, 45 Baldwin, James, 254 (n. 28) "Being and Seeming" (Emerson), 115 Beneath the American Renaissance (Reynolds), 106, 265-66 (n. 25) Bercovitch, Sacvan, 124-25, 256-57 (n. 12) Berkson, Dorothy, 261-62 (n. 12) Berlant, Lauren, 218, 219 Bieder, Robert E., 21, 22-23 birth control, 209, 244 (nn. 47,48) birth rates, 31, 32, 35, 244 (n.48) Black Image in the White Mind, The (Fredrickson), 259 (n. 72) "Black Saxons, The" (Child), 69, 251 (n. 48) Blake (Delany), 233, 234 body: as closed system of energy, 37, 245 (n. 71); and the relationship between micro-and macrocosm, 183-84 body politic, 28; and control of individual bodies, 42; dilemmas of negotiating, 239,- and identity politics, 6; and romanticism, 204; and scientific discourse, i, 204,- and sexuality, 36, 37, 38; and slavery, 20; and white men, 38, 245 (n. 78) "Boston Hymn" (Emerson), 260 (n. 104) Boyd, Melba Joyce, 254 (n. 17) Braude, Ann, 244 (n.40) Braxton, Joanne, 206,223 Brodhead, RichardH., 58, 250 (n.29) Bruce, Dickson D., Jr.,93 Buell, Lawrence,84, 254 (n. 18); correspondence defined by, no-ii; on Emerson and transcendentalism, 114,on Emerson's commitment to European intellectual influence, 124, 259 (n. 63); on Emerson's conception of history, 130, 259 (n. 63); on Emerson's writing style, 108; on Whitman's use of the poetic catalog, 175 Burbick, Joan, 168 Burroughs, John, 177 "By Blue Ontario's Shore"(Whitman), 196-200, 266 (nn.46, 47) Cadava, Eduardo, 107, 108, 135, 256 (n. 8) "Calamus" (Whitman),178, 180, 191, 196, 197 Caldwell, Charles, 24, 45, 242 (n.25) captivity narrative, 161-62, 165-66, 168 Carby, Hazel V., 34, 48, 98, 205,268 (nn.5, 18) Carlyle, Thomas, 131 Caucasian: ambiguities of term, 247 (n. 104); and the constructionof white identity, 27;and the scientific classification of race, 22, 23, 24-25 Cayton, Mary Kupeic, 106-7 Ceniza, Sherry, 195 Chamber, Robert, 131 Channing, William Ellery, 251 (n. 45) "Character" (Emerson), 119-20 Cheyfitz, Eric, 117, 151, 164, 167, 262 (n. 13) Child, Lydia Maria: and abolition, 8, 28, 204; class status of...