The American Literatures Initiative

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

The American Literatures Initiative

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

Jolie A. Sheffer

248 pages • 2013 • 4 editions

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

The American Literatures Initiative

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

John C. Charles

280 pages • 2012 • 4 editions

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

The American Literatures Initiative

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

Yoonmee Chang

208 pages • 2010 • 4 editions

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

The American Literatures Initiative

The New Negro in the Old South

Gabriel A. Briggs

240 pages • 2015 • 4 editions

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

The American Literatures Initiative

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

Joseph Keith

240 pages • 2013 • 4 editions

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

The American Literatures Initiative

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

Ryan Poll

238 pages • 2012 • 4 editions

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

The American Literatures Initiative

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

Thomas Heise

304 pages • 2010 • 3 editions

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

The American Literatures Initiative

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

Kimberly Snyder Manganelli

256 pages • 2012 • 4 editions

nonfiction literary race challenging informative reflective medium-paced