The Heart of WhitenessIn this groundbreaking study, Julian Carter demonstrates that between 1880 and 1940, cultural discourses of whiteness and heterosexuality fused to form a new concept of the normal American. Gilded Age elites defined white civilization as the triumphant achievement of exceptional people hewing to a relational ethic of strict self discipline for the common good. During the early twentieth century, that racial and relational ideal was reconceived in more