1st Edition
Race and the Production of Modern American Nationalism
Edited By Reynolds J. Scott-Childress
Copyright 1999
420 Pages
by
Routledge
420 Pages
by
Routledge
424 Pages
by
Routledge
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This important book addresses the ways race has both helped and hindered Americans in determining national identity. Contributors consider race and American nationalism from a variety of historical and disciplinary vantage points. Beginning with the aftermath of the Civil War and unfolding chronologically through to the present, the essays examine a multitude of different groups-Japanese... Read more
Introduction, Reynolds J. Scott-Childress * Race, Nation, and the Rhetoric of Color: Locating Japan and China, 1870-1907, Reynolds J. Scott-Childress * Freedom's Memorial: Manumission and Black Masculinity in the Monument to Lincoln, Kirk Savage * Nation's Nature: Billy Budd, Sailor, Anglo-Saxonism, and the Canon, Cynthia J. Davis * Romanticism, Law, and the Denial of African-American Citizenship, Jon-Christian Suggs * Consolidating Anglo-American Imperial Identity around the Spanish-American War, Mar'a DeGuzm n * Sexual Appeal of Racial Differences: U.S. Travel Writing and Anxious American-ness in Turn-of-the-Century Puerto Rico, Kelvin Santiago-Valles * Irish Race and German Nationality: Catholic Languages of Ethnic Difference in Turn-of-the-Century Philadelphia, Russell Kazal * W.E.B. Du Bois, American Nationalism, and the Jewish Question, Michael Kramer * The Enemy Imaged: Visual Configurations of Race and Ethnicity in World War I Propaganda Posters, Anne Knutson * America Is Developing a Distinct Type of Man: Stark Love , Eugenics, and Nativist Discourses of the 1920s, Heidi Kenaga * Go Down, Moses: Zora Neale Hurston and Sigmund Freued on Race, Nation, and Political Representation, Char Miller * A Marble House Divided: The Lincoln Memorial, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Politics of Memory, 1939-1963, Scott Sandage * Citizen-Soldier and the Citizen-Internee: Military Fraternity, Race, and American Nationhood, 1941-1945, Holly Allen * Rescripting Louis Chu's Eat a Bowl of Tea: A Chinese [/] American Authentic?, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim * Techniques of the Imaginary Nation: Engendering Family Photography, Laura Wexler
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Reynolds J. Scott-Childress
