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Introduction: Coloring Latinos, Coloring the United States The Novel as Popular Culture; Race in Latin America; Latinos as a U.S. Race; The Novel in the Dissemination and Reconfiguration of Notions about Race Chapter One: Novel Concepts: The Role of the Novel in Developing Ideas of Nation and Race in the Americas Mikhail Bakhtin and Georg Lukács, and the New World of the Novel; Benedict Anderson and the Novel as a Tool of National Imagination; Fredric Jameson and the Many Worlds in the Americas; Novels and the Fictionalization of Racial Attitudes Chapter Two: Enslaved Characters: Nineteenth-Century Abolitionist Novels and the Absence of Bi-racial Consciousness Differences between Bi-racial and Mulatto Characters; The Myth of Racial Purity versus the Dreams of a Miscegenated Paradise; The Limitations of Nineteenth-Century Racial Representations; Uncle Tom's Cabin and Bi-racial Characters in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature; sab as a Nineteenth-Century Cuban Romantic Tale about Race; The Complicit Ignorance of Cecilia Valdes ; A Thin Line between Black and White in Martin Morua Delgado's sofía and Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson ; Race without Romance in Antonio Zambrana's El negro Francisco Chapter Three: Mulatto Fictions: Representations of Identity-Consciousness in U.S. and Latin American Bi-racial Characters Mulatto Characters as Racial and Cultural Nexus; passing the Tragic Mulatta in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature; gabriela and the Sexualized Mulatta in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature; Pobre Negro, The Violent Land and the Limits of Mulatto Characters in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature; Joe Christmas and the Unmerry Existence of Mulatto Characters in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature; Go Down, Moses and the Mumbled Recognition of Racial Confluence in the United States; The Bluest Eye and the Persistence of Anti-Mulatto Fiction in the United States Chapter Four: Identity Against the Grain: Latino Authors of African-European Heritage and Their Encounters with the Racial Ideology of the United States Latino Authors and the One Drop Rule; Piri Thomas, Julia Alvarez, and the Limitations of Choosing Sides in the U.S. Racial Divide; Esmeralda Santiago and Negi's Persistent Puertoricanness in the Face of the One Drop Rule Chapter Five: Choosing Your Own Face: Future Trend of Racial Discourses Latino Influence in Other Cultural Products; The Latin American Racial Ethic behind the Wigga; The Rock, Tiger Woods, and a Universal Race Notes Bibliography Index
About the author
Carlos Hiraldo earned his Ph.D. from SUNY at Stony Brook and is currently an Assistant Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College.
