Race and the Production of Modern American Nationalism

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This important book addresses the ways race has both helped and hindered Americans in determining national identity. Contributors 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 represented in 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 learn how Americans in different periods and circumstances have grappled with the changing issues of defining race and of defining American as a race, as a nationality, or as both.

Introduction, Reynolds J. Scott-Childress * Race, Nation, and the Rhetoric of Color: Locating Japan and China, 1870-1907, Reynolds J. Scott-Childress * Freedom's Memorial: Manumission and Black Masculinity in the Monument to Lincoln, Kirk Savage * Nation's Nature: Billy Budd, Sailor, Anglo-Saxonism, and the Canon, Cynthia J. Davis * Romanticism, Law, and the Denial of African-American Citizenship, Jon-Christian Suggs * Consolidating Anglo-American Imperial Identity around the Spanish-American War, Mar'a DeGuzm n * Sexual Appeal of Racial Differences: U.S. Travel Writing and Anxious American-ness in Turn-of-the-Century Puerto Rico, Kelvin Santiago-Valles * Irish Race and German Nationality: Catholic Languages of Ethnic Difference in Turn-of-the-Century Philadelphia, Russell Kazal * W.E.B. Du Bois, American Nationalism, and the Jewish Question, Michael Kramer * The Enemy Imaged: Visual Configurations of Race and Ethnicity in World War I Propaganda Posters, Anne Knutson * America Is Developing a Distinct Type of Man: Stark Love , Eugenics, and Nativist Discourses of the 1920s, Heidi Kenaga * Go Down, Moses: Zora Neale Hurston and Sigmund Freued on Race, Nation, and Political Representation, Char Miller * A Marble House Divided: The Lincoln Memorial, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Politics of Memory, 1939-1963, Scott Sandage * Citizen-Soldier and the Citizen-Internee: Military Fraternity, Race, and American Nationhood, 1941-1945, Holly Allen * Rescripting Louis Chu's Eat a Bowl of Tea: A Chinese [/] American Authentic?, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim * Techniques of the Imaginary Nation: Engendering Family Photography, Laura Wexler

Reynolds J. Scott-Childress