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"Offering an accessible introduction to the history of race, this volume shows how this history has been represented in literature, and how those representations have influenced American culture. It addresses the centrality of race in American literature by foregrounding the conflicts across different traditions and modes of interpretation"--
List of contents
Introduction John Ernest; Part I. Foundations: 1. Tracing Race Travis Foster; 2. Racial Management and Technologies of Care Malini Johar Schueller; Part II. Backgrounds: 3. Still looking for the Meaning of Whiteness in American Literature Valerie Babb; 4. From Plymouth Rock to Standing Rock: Hospitality, Settler Colonialism, and 400 Years of Indigenous Literary Resistance Drew Lopenzina; 5. Racing Latinidad Renee Hudson; 6. African American Literature's One Long Memory Chris Freeburg; 7. Race and the Mythos of Model Minority in Asian American Literature Swati Rana; Part III. The Dynamics of Race and Literary Dynamics: 8. 'Dramatic Race': Democratic Lessons of Twenty-First Century African American Drama Frank Obenland; 9. Beyond Humanization: Decolonization, Relationality, and Twenty-First Century Indigenous Literatures René Dietrich; 10. Shades of Whiteness and the Enigma of Race: Racial In-Betweenness and American Literature Mita Banerjee; 11. There is Here: Immigration Law and the Literature of Belonging Jeannie Pfaelzer; Part IV. Rethinking American Literature: 12. Race, Revision, and William Wells Brown's Miralda Brigitte Fielder; 13. 'Here's to Chicanos in the Middle Class!': Culture, Class, and The Limits of Chicano Literary Activism José Antonio Arellano; 14. Pulping the Racial Imagination Kinohi Nishikawa; 15. Recognition, Urban NDN Style: The Social Poetics of Pre-1980s Intertribal Newspapers Siobhan Senier; Part V. Case Studies: 16. Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Question of Race Claire Parfait; 17. The Legacy of Toni Morrison: Black Writers, Invisibility and Intimacy Stephanie Li; Suggested Readings.
About the author
John Ernest is the Judge Hugh M. Morris Professor and Department Chair of English at the University of Delaware. He is author of over forty-five essays and author or editor of thirteen books, including Chaotic Justice: Rethinking African American Literary History (2009), and The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative (2014). With Stephanie Lee, he is the co-editor of Elements in Race and US Literature and Culture, a series published by Cambridge University Press.
