Collecting objects/excluding people : Chinese subjects and American visual culture, 1830-1900 by Metrick-Chen, Lenore

Table of Contents: “…The Politics of Chinoiserie: The Disappearance of Chinese Objects -- The Power of Inaction: Chinese Objects and the Transformation of the American Definition of Art -- From Class to Race: The New York Times Reconstructs "Chinese" -- The Chinese of the American Imagination: Nineteenth-century Trade Card Images -- Conclusion.…”
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Racial indigestion : eating bodies in the 19th century by Tompkins, Kyla Wazana

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : eating bodies in the nineteenth century -- Kitchen insurrections -- "She made the table a snare to them" : Sylvester Graham's imperial dietetics -- "Everything 'cept eat us" : the mouth as political organ in the antebellum novel -- A wholesome girl : addiction, Grahamite dietetics and Louisa May Alcott's Rose -- Campbell novels -- "What's de use talking 'bout dem 'mendments?" : trade cards and late nineteenth- -- Century consumer citizenship -- Conclusion : racial indigestion.…”
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German colonialism, visual culture, and modern memory

Table of Contents: “…: colonial and exotic trading cards / Joachim Zeller -- Cakewalking the anarchy of empire around 1900 / Astrid Kusser -- Satire magazines and racial politics / Volker Langbehn -- Demystifying colonial settlement : building handbooks for settlers, 1904-1930 / Itohan Osayimwese -- Patriotism, spectacle, and reverie : colonialism in early cinema / Wolfgang Fuhrmann -- German postcolonialism, 1919-present -- Persuasive maps and a suggestive novel : Hans Grimm's Volk ohne Raum and German cartography in southwest Africa / Oliver Simons -- Colonial disgust : the colonial master's emotion of superiority / Thomas Schwarz -- Weimar revisions of Germany's colonial past : the photomontages of Hannah Höch and László Moholy-Nagy / Brett M. …”
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