Beschreibung:
A study of how the child (in this case the white child) is conceptually connected to United States nationalism and nation-building, as well as to the relationship that nationalism has to race in the 19th century.
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction : Natal Nationalism: The Place of the Child in American Cultural Studies 11. The Child and the Racial Politics of Nation Making in the Slavery Era 292. Southern Fictions and the “Race” of Nations Along the Mexican Border 523. Consenting Fictions, Fictions of Consent: The Child and the Nineteenth-Century Sentimental Novel 784. Transnational Twain 1115. Henry James, Pauline Hopkins, and Psychologies of Race 1336. Raceless States: W.E.B. Du Bois and Cuba 157Notes 179Bibliography 211Index 239