She provides original readings of such texts as Havelock Ellis's late nineteenth-century work on "sexual inversion," the 1914 film "A Florida Enchantment", the novels of Pauline E. Hopkins, James Weldon Johnson's "Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man", and Jean Toomer's fiction and autobiographical writings, including "Cane". Through her analyses of these texts and her archival research, Somerville contributes to the growing body of scholarship that focuses on discovering the intersections of gender, race, and sexuality. "Queering the Color Line" will have broad appeal across disciplines including: African American studies, gay and lesbian studies, literary criticism, cultural studies, cinema studies, and gender studies.
