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The aim is to explore the interplay between gender performance and white supremacy in the context of antebellum slavery.

“Perverse Domesticity”: The Gender of White Supremacy in Antebellum Slavery

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The aim is to explore the interplay between gender performance and white supremacy in the context of antebellum slavery.
Analysis of slave narratives from Harriet Jacobs, Henry Bibb, Ellen and William Craft, and Silvia Dubois.
Application of black feminist and trans theories to assess the gender dynamics in slavery.
Examination of historical material practices in the antebellum South.
Reveals how white gender and sexual behavior disrupted the established social ideologies of gender roles.
Demonstrates that white supremacy influenced the racialization of enslaved individuals as gender deviants.
Challenges popular narratives like Gone with the Wind regarding normative domesticity in southern households.

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This article critiques the gender performance of white supremacy in slavery, suggesting a new lens on gender and race.

Ren Heintz (2026) studied this question.

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