| Contents |
Introduction: re-thinking cultural identity / Timothy B. Powell. -- Nation, class, and physical minorities / Lennard J. Davis. -- Strange blood: hemophobia and the unexplored boundaries of queer nation / Michael Davidson. -- "An essential friendship": African Americans and Caribbean immigrants in Harlem / Heather Hathaway. -- Narratives of deviance and delight: staring at Julia Pastrana, the "extraordinary Lady" / Rosemarie Garland Thomson. -- "One hundred percent American" : How a slave, a janitor, and a former Klansman escaped racial categories by becoming Indians / Laura Browder. -- "From this moment forth, we are black lesbians": querying feminism and transgressing whiteness in consolidated's The business of punishment / Sharon P. Holland. -- The accent of "Loss": cultural crossings as context in Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia girls lost their accents / David Mitchell. -- Historical multiculturalism: cultural complexity in the first Native American novel / Timothy B. Powell. -- Newsprint masks: the comic columns of Finley Peter Dunne, Alexander Posey, and Langston Hughes / John Lowe. -- Genealogy, genre, gender: Sui Sin Far's "Leaves from the mental portfolio of an Eurasian" / Nicole Tonkovich. -- Miscegen(r)ation or Mestiza discourse?: feminist and racial politics in Ramona and Iola Leroy? Diane Price Herndl. |
