TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sheffer,Jolie A.
AU  - American Literatures Initiative
TI  - The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1880-1930
T2  - American literatures initiative
SN  - 9780813554648
AV  - PS153 .R663 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - Minority authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Women authors
KW  - Ethnic groups in literature
KW  - Multiculturalism in literature
KW  - Identity (Psychology) in literature
KW  - Minorities
KW  - United States
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Mulattos, Mysticism, and Marriage: AfricanAmerican Identity and Psychic Integration; Chapter 2. Half-Caste Family Romances: Divergent Pathsof Asian American Identity; Chapter 3. The Mexican Mestizo/a in theMexican American Imaginary; Chapter 4. Half-Breeds and Homesteaders: Native/AmericanAlliances in the West; Chapter 5. Blood and Blankets: Americanizing EuropeanImmigrants through Cultural Miscegenation andTextile Reproduction; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; 2; b
N2  - 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. The Romance of Race examines the role of minority women writers and reformers in the creation of modern American multiculturalism by placing minorities at the center of American identity and imagining a new national narrative based on the model of an interracial nuclear family
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