The American Literatures Initiative

The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1880-1930 by Jolie A. Sheffer

The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1880-1930

The American Literatures Initiative

Jolie A. Sheffer

248 pages • paperback • 2013

nonfiction history race informative reflective medium-paced
Abandoning the Black Hero: Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel by John C. Charles

Abandoning the Black Hero: Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel

The American Literatures Initiative

John C. Charles

280 pages • paperback • 2012

nonfiction literary race reflective medium-paced
Writing the Ghetto: Class, Authorship, and the Asian American Ethnic Enclave by Yoonmee Chang

Writing the Ghetto: Class, Authorship, and the Asian American Ethnic Enclave

The American Literatures Initiative

Yoonmee Chang

208 pages • paperback • 2010

nonfiction literary politics race informative reflective medium-paced
The New Negro in the Old South by Gabriel A. Briggs

The New Negro in the Old South

The American Literatures Initiative

Gabriel A. Briggs

240 pages • paperback • 2015

nonfiction history literary race challenging informative medium-paced
Unbecoming Americans: Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945-1960 by Joseph Keith

Unbecoming Americans: Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945-1960

The American Literatures Initiative

Joseph Keith

240 pages • paperback • 2013

nonfiction history literary race challenging reflective medium-paced
Main Street and Empire: The Fictional Small Town in the Age of Globalization by Ryan Poll

Main Street and Empire: The Fictional Small Town in the Age of Globalization

The American Literatures Initiative

Ryan Poll

238 pages • paperback • 2012

nonfiction history literary challenging reflective slow-paced
Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture by Thomas Heise

Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture

The American Literatures Initiative

Thomas Heise

304 pages • paperback • 2010

nonfiction literary psychology sociology informative reflective slow-paced
Transatlantic Spectacles of Race: The Tragic Mulatta and the Tragic Muse by Kimberly Snyder Manganelli

Transatlantic Spectacles of Race: The Tragic Mulatta and the Tragic Muse

The American Literatures Initiative

Kimberly Snyder Manganelli

256 pages • paperback • 2012

nonfiction literary race challenging informative reflective medium-paced