Reproduction of Race and Racial Ideologies

Wheeler, Roxann.
The Complexion of Desire: Racial Ideology and Mid-Eighteenth-Century British Novels
Eighteenth-Century Studies - Volume 32, Number 3, Spring 1999, pp. 309-332

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Roxann Wheeler - The Complexion of Desire: Racial Ideology and Mid-Eighteenth-Century British Novels - Eighteenth-Century Studies 32:3 Eighteenth-Century Studies 32.3 (1999) 309-332 The Complexion of Desire: Racial Ideology and Mid-Eighteenth-Century British Novels Roxann Wheeler [A] man ennobles the woman he takes, be she who she will; and adopts her into his own rank, be it what it will: but a woman, though ever so nobly born, debases herself by a mean marriage, and descends from her own rank, to that of him she stoops to marry. --Samuel Richardson, Pamela (1740) The lower class of women in England, are remarkably fond of the blacks...in the course of a few generations more, the English blood will become so contaminated with this mixture,...this alloy may spread so extensively, as even to reach the middle, and then the higher orders of the people, till the whole nation resembles the Portuguese and Moriscos in complexion of skin and baseness of mind. --Edward Long, Candid Reflections (1772) The eminent Jamaican historian and English patriot Edward Long is possibly the most often-cited racist of the eighteenth century, but his assumptions about the link between complexion and moral probity and the undesirable effects of racial mixture represented an emerging minority position in Britain rather than an established concern. This essay situates Long's diatribe in its historical context by examining a significant way that Britons construed human...

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