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Nadelhaft University of Maine  \nA ROUTLEDGE SERIES  \nSTUDIES IN AMERICAN POPULAR HISTORY AND CULTURE  \nJEROME NADELHAFT, General Editor  \nTHE FACTORY GIRL AND  \nTHE SEAMSTRESS Imagining Gender and Class in Nineteenth Century American Fiction  \nAmal Amireh  \nWRITING JAZZ  \nRace, Nationalism, and Modern Culture in the 1920s  \nNicholas M.Evans  \nAUTOMOBILITY  \nSocial Changes in the American South, 1909±1939  \nCorey T.Lesseig  \nACTORS AND ACTIVISTS Politics, Performance, and Exchange Among Social Worlds David A.Schlossman  \nSTUDIES IN THE LAND The Northeast Corner David C.Smith  \nFIRST Do No HARM Empathy and the Writing of Medical Journal Articles Mary E.Knatterud  \nPIETY AND POWER  \nGender and Religious Culture in the American Colonies, 1630± 1700  \nLeslie Lindenauer  \nRACE-ING MASCULINITY Identity in Contemporary  \nU.S. Men's Writing  \nJohn Christopher Cunningham  \nCRIME AND THE NATION Prison Reform and Popular Fiction in Philadelphia, 1786± 1800  \nPeter Okun  \nFOOD IN FILM A Culinary Performance of Communication  \nJane Ferry  \nDECONSTRUCTING POSTWWII NEW YORK CITY The Literature, Art, Jazz and Architecture of an Emerging Global Capital  \nRobert Bennett  \nRETHINKING THE RED SCARE  \nThe Lusk Committee and New York's Crusade against Radicalism, 1919±1923 Todd J.Pfannestiel  \nHOLLYWOOD AND THE RISE OF PHYSICAL CULTURE Heather Addison  \nHOMELESSNESS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE Romaticism, Realism, and Testimony  \niii  \nJohn Allen  \nNo WAY OF KNOWING Crime, Urban Legends, and the Internet  \nPamela Donovan  \nTHE MAKING OF THE PRIMITIVE BAPTISTS  \nA Cultural and Intellectual History of the Antimission Movement, 1800±1840 James R.Mathis  \nWOMEN AND COMEDY IN SOLO PERFORMANCE Phyllis Diller, Lily Tomlin, and Roseanne  \nSuzanne Lavin  \nTHE LITERATURE OF IMMIGRATION AND RACIAL FORMATION  \nBecoming White, Becoming Other, Becoming American in the Late Progressive Era  \nLinda Joyce Brown  \nROUTLEDGE New York & London  \nPublished in 2004 by  \nRoutledge  \n29 West 35th Street  \nNewYork, NY 10001  \nPublished in Great Britain by  \nRoutledge  \n11 New Fetter Lane  \nLondon EC4P 4EE  \nCopyright © 2004 by Routledge Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group. This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005.“To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of [eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk](eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk).”  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by an electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without permission in writing from  \nthe publisher.  \nISBN 0-203-32772-1 Master e-book ISBN  \nISBN 0-415-94931-9 (Print Edition)  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nBrown, Linda Joyce, 1967-  \nThe literature of immigration and racial formation : becoming white, becoming other, becoming American in the late Progressive Era / Linda Joyce Brown.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).—(Studies in American popular history and culture)  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN 0-415-94931-9 (hardback : alk. paper)  \n1. American literature—20th century—History and criticism.  \n2. Emigration and immigration in literature. 3. American literature—Women authors—History and criticism. 4. Immigrants’ writings, American—History and criticism. 5. Difference (Psychology) in literature. 6. Passing (Identity) in literature. 7. Women immigrants in literature. 8. Ethnicity in literature. 9. Whites in literature.  \n10. Race in literature. I. Title. II. Series: American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm)) PS228 .E55B76 2004  \n810.9′3522′09041–dc22  \n2004001247  \nvi  \nForAl Cheverine  \nand  \nFor my parents, Mary Dostert Brown and Paul Asa Brown  \nTable of Contents  \nAcknowledgments ix  \nPreface Questio","cbCais40H1FwQ4O5","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCais40H1FwQ4O5","pdf",1243647,159,"English","# Acknowledgments\n# Preface\n## Questioning Race, Questioning\n# Whiteness\n## Chapter One Introduction: Race, Whiteness, and Women\n## Chapter Two Coming Into Whiteness: Mary Antin’s Claim to Assimilation\n## Chapter Three “Why couldn’t we have been either one thing or the other?” Monolithic Identity and Ethnic Construction in the Fiction and Autobiography of Sui Sin Far\n## Chapter Four “This hideous little pickaninny” and the Formation of Bohemian Whiteness: Race, Cultural Pluralism, and Willa Cather’s My Ántonia\n# Epilogue The Legacy of Progressive Era Racial Formation and the Re-Racialization of Immigrant Bodies\n# Notes\n# Works Cited\n# Index","[{\"question\":\"What is the central focus of the book?\",\"answer\":\"The book focuses on how immigration and racial formation influence identity in American literature in the late Progressive Era, emphasizing becoming white, becoming other, and becoming American.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the book structure its main arguments?\",\"answer\":\"It organizes its analysis around a preface and thematic sections, then multiple chapters and an epilogue that develop and extend the argument.\"},{\"question\":\"Which kinds of supporting materials are included?\",\"answer\":\"The volume includes notes, works cited, and an index, and it also states that it includes bibliographical references.\"}]","THE LITERATURE OF IMMIGRATION AND RACIAL FORMATION - Becoming White, Becoming Other, Becoming American in the Late Progressive Era | PDF",1789985846,245]