Race and the production of modern American nationalism / edited by Reynolds J. Scott-Childress.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scott-Childress, Reynolds J.

Series:

Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 1902.

Garland reference library of the humanities. Wellesley studies in critical theory, literary history, and culture ; vol. 18.

Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 1902. Wellesley studies in critical theory, literary history, and culture ; v. 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race awareness--United States.

Race awareness.

Nationalism.

History.

United States.

Nationalism--United States--History--20th century.

National characteristics, American.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

United States--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 391 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Garland Pub., 1999.

Summary:

This important books addresses the ways race has both helped and hindered Americans in determining national identity. Contributors to the volume consider race and American nationalism from a variety of historical and disciplinary vantage points. Beginning with the aftermath of the Civil War and unfolding chronologically through to the present, the essays examine a multitude of different groups -- Japanese Americans, Chinese Americans, Puerto Ricans, African Americans, whites, Jews, Irish Americans, German Americans -- by examining race and nationalism through public memorials, photography, film, classic and minor literature, gender issues, legal studies, and more. The book offers rereadings of some of the pivotal figures in American culture and politics, including Herman Melville, Frances Harper, William James, Frederic Remington, Charles Francis Adams, W.E.B. DuBois, George Creel, Zora Neale Hurston, Louis Chu, and others. In the course of these essays, readers will find careful attention paid to how Americans in different periods and circumstances have grappled with the changing issues of defining race and of defining Americans as a race, nation, or both.

Contents:

Race, Nation, and the Rhetoric of Color: Locating Japan and China, 1870-1907 / Reynolds J. Scott-Childress 3

"Freedom's Memorial": Manumission and Black Masculinity in a Monument to Lincoln / Kirk Savage 21

Nation's Nature: "Billy Budd, Sailor," Anglo-Saxonism, and the Canon / Cynthia J. Davis 43

Romanticism, Law, and the Suppression of African-American Citizenship / Jon-Christian Suggs 67

Consolidating Anglo-American Imperial Identity Around the Spanish-American War (1898) / Maria DeGuzman 97

The Sexual Appeal of Racial Differences: U.S. Travel Writing and Anxious American-ness in Turn-of-the-Century Puerto Rico / Kelvin Santiago-Valles 127

Irish "Race" and German "Nationality": Catholic Languages of Ethnic Difference in Turn-of-the-Century Philadelphia / Russell A. Kazal 149

W.E.B. Du Bois, American Nationalism, and the Jewish Question / Michael P. Kramer 169

The Enemy Imaged: Visual Configurations of Race and Ethnicity in World War I Propaganda Posters / Anne Classen Knutson 195

"America Is Developing a Distinct Type of Man": Stark Love, Eugenics, and Nativist Discourses of the 1920s / Heidi Kenaga 221

Go Down, Moses: Zora Neale Hurston and Sigmund Freud on Race, Nation, and Political Representation / Char Miller 247

A Marble House Divided: The Lincoln Memorial, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Politics of Memory, 1939-1963 / Scott A. Sandage 273

The Citizen-Soldier and the Citizen-Internee: Military Fraternity, Race, and American Nationhood, 1942-1946 / Holly Allen 313

Rescripting Louis Chu's Eat a Bowl of Tea: A Chinese[/]American Authentic? / Shirley Geok-lin Lim 335

Techniques of the Imaginary Nation: Engendering Family Photography / Laura Wexler 359.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0815320167

OCLC:

39724202