LEADER 04544nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910462264003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-80587-1 010 $a0-8135-5464-0 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813554648 035 $a(CKB)2670000000276793 035 $a(EBL)1062353 035 $a(OCoLC)818820263 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000762600 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11410109 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000762600 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10756845 035 $a(PQKB)10580688 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1062353 035 $a(OCoLC)821263332 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18911 035 $a(DE-B1597)530295 035 $a(OCoLC)1003792429 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813554648 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1062353 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10626271 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL411837 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000276793 100 $a20120329d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe romance of race$b[electronic resource] $eincest, miscegenation, and multiculturalism in the United States, 1880-1930 /$fJolie A. Sheffer 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (247 p.) 225 0 $aAmerican literatures initiative 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-5462-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMulattos, mysticism, and marriage: African American identity and psychic integration -- Half-caste family romances: divergent paths of Asian American identity -- The Mexican Mestizo/a in the Mexican American imaginary -- Half-breeds and homesteaders: Native/American alliances in the West -- Blood and blankets: Americanizing European immigrants through cultural miscegenation and textile reproduction. 330 $aIn the United States miscegenation is not merely a subject of literature and popular culture. It is in many ways the foundation of contemporary imaginary community. The Romance of Race examines the role of minority women writers and reformers in the creation of our modern American multiculturalism. 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. A generation of women writers and reformers-particularly women of color-contributed to these debates by imagining new national narratives that put minorities at the center of American identity. Jane Addams, Pauline Hopkins, Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton), Marķa Cristina Mena, and Mourning Dove (Christine Quintasket) embraced the images of the United States-and increasingly the world-as an interracial nuclear family. They also reframed public debates through narratives depicting interracial encounters as longstanding, unacknowledged liaisons between white men and racialized women that produced an incestuous, mixed-race nation. By mobilizing the sexual taboos of incest and miscegenation, these women writers created political allegories of kinship and community. Through their criticisms of the nation's history of exploitation and colonization, they also imagined a more inclusive future. As Jolie A. Sheffer identifies the contemporary template for American multiculturalism in the works of turn-of-the century minority writers, she uncovers a much more radical history than has previously been considered. 606 $aAmerican literature$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEthnic groups in literature 606 $aMulticulturalism in literature 606 $aIdentity (Psychology) in literature 606 $aMinorities$zUnited States$xIntellectual life 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEthnic groups in literature. 615 0$aMulticulturalism in literature. 615 0$aIdentity (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aMinorities$xIntellectual life. 676 $a810.9/920693 686 $aHT 1691$2rvk 700 $aSheffer$b Jolie A$01053238 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462264003321 996 $aThe romance of race$92485048 997 $aUNINA