The Literature of Immigration and Racial Formation: Becoming White, Becoming Other, Becoming American in the Late Progressive Era,9780415949316

The Literature of Immigration and Racial Formation: Becoming White, Becoming Other, Becoming American in the Late Progressive Era

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ISBN13: 9780415949316
ISBN10: 0415949319
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-06-24
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Preface Questioning Race, Questioning Whiteness xi
Chapter One Introduction: Race, Whiteness, and Women Immigrants 1(28)
Chapter Two Coming Into Whiteness: Mary Antin's Claim to Assimilation 29(28)
Chapter Three "Why couldn't we have been either one thing or the other?" Monolithic Identity and Ethnic Construction in the Fiction and Autobiography of Sui Sin Far 57(24)
Chapter Four "This hideous little pickaninny" and the Formation of Bohemian Whiteness: Race, Cultural Pluralism, and Willa Cather's My Antonia 81(24)
Epilogue The Legacy of Progressive Era Racial Formation and the Re-Racialization of Immigrant Bodies 105(8)
Notes 113(10)
Works Cited 123(8)
Index 131

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