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The literature of immigration and racial formation : becoming white, becoming other, becoming American in the late Progressive Era /
This work examines early twentieth-century literature about women immigrants in order to reveal the differing ways that American racial categories and identities, particularly that of whiteness, were textually and socially constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
2004.
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| Series: | American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm))
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Introduction : race, whiteness, and women immigrants
- ch. 2. Coming into whiteness : Mary Antin's claim to assimilation
- ch. 3. "Why couldn't we have been either one thing or the other?" Monolithic identity and ethnic construction in the fiction and autobriography of Sui Sin Far
- ch. 4. "This hideous little pickaninny" and the formation of Bohemian whiteness : race, cultural pluralism, and Willa Cather's My Ańtonia.