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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lee, Julia H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2022]
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.