The romance of race : incest, miscegenation, and multiculturalism in the United States, 1880-1930 /

The national identity of the United States was transformed between 1880 and 1930 due to mass immigration, imperial expansion, the rise of Jim Crow, and the beginning of the suffrage movement. This book examines the role of minority women writers and reformers in the creation of modern American multi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sheffer, Jolie A.
Corporate Author: American Literatures Initiative
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press [2012]
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hjcs0
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Mulattos, Mysticism, and Marriage : African American Identity and Psychic Integration
  • Half-Caste Family Romances : Divergent Paths of Asian American Identity
  • The Mexican Mestizo/a in the Mexican American Imaginary
  • Half-Breeds and Homesteaders : Native/American Alliances in the West
  • Blood and Blankets : Americanizing European Immigrants through Cultural Miscegenation and Textile Reproduction
  • Conclusion.