Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ch. 1. Novel concepts : the role of the novel in developing ideas of nation and race in the Americas
  • ch. 2. Enslaved characters : nineteenth-century abolitionist novels and the absence of bi-racial consciousness
  • ch. 3. Mulatto fictions : representations of identity-consciousness in U.S. and Latin American bi-racial characters
  • ch. 4. Identity against the grain : Latino authors of African European heritage and their encounters with the racial ideology of the United States
  • ch. 5. Choosing your own face : future trends of racial discourses in the United States.