Kindred SpectersThe refusal to recognize kinship relations among slaves, interracial couples, and same sex partners is steeped in historical and cultural taboos. In Kindred Specters, Christopher Peterson explores the ways in which non normative relationships bear the stigma of death that American culture vehemently denies. Probing Derridas notion of spectrality as well as Orlando Pattersons concept of social death, Peterson examines how death, mourning, and violence