The Racial Railroad /
"The Racial Railroad argues the train has been a persistent and crucial site for racial meaning-making in American culture for the past 150 years. This book examines the complex intertwining of race and railroad in literary works, films, visual media, and songs from a variety of cultural tradit...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2022]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Tracks Across the Land : Visualizing the Railroad in Settler Colonialism
- The Chinaman's Crime
- Telling Stories : The Transcontinental Railroad as Chinese American Narrative
- Remembrance and Reenactment at Promontory Summit
- The Jim Crow Train in African American Literature
- Riding the Blind
- Speculative Trains : Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad
- Fugitive Trains
- Coda: The Train Will Not Save Us.