"Miscegenation" : making race in America /
Annotation In the years between the Revolution and the Civil War, as the question of black political rights was debated more and more vociferously, descriptions and pictorial representations of whites coupling with blacks proliferated in the North. Novelists, short-story writers, poets, journalists,...
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Philadelphia [Pa.] :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2002
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: The Rhetorical Wedge Between Preference and Prejudice
- 1. Race and the Idea of Preference in the New Republic: The Port Folio Poems About Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
- 2. The Rhetoric of Blood and Mixture: Cooper's "Man Without a Cross"
- 3. The Barrier of Good Taste: Avoiding A Sojourn in the City of Amalgamation in the Wake of Abolitionism
- 4. Combating Abolitionism with the Species Argument: Race and Economic Anxieties in Poe's Philadelphia
- 5. Making "Miscegenation": Alcott's Paul Frere and the Limits of Brotherhood After EmancipationEpilogue: "Miscegenation" Today
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Acknowledgments
