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The Literature of Immigration and Racial Formation

Becoming White, Becoming Other, Becoming American in the Late Progressive Era

By Linda Joyce Brown

Published June 24th 2004 by Routledge – 160 pages

Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

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This work examines early twentieth-century literature about women immigrants in order to reveal the differing ways that American racial categories and identities, particularly that of whiteness, were textually and socially constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century.

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Name: The Literature of Immigration and Racial Formation: Becoming White, Becoming Other, Becoming American in the Late Progressive Era (Hardback) – Routledge 
Description: By Linda Joyce Brown. This work examines early twentieth-century literature about women immigrants in order to reveal the differing ways that American racial categories and identities, particularly that of whiteness, were textually and socially constructed at the beginning of...
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