Segregated Miscegenation Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Coloring Latinos, Coloring the United States	1
	The Novel as Popular Culture	1
	Race in Latin America	1
	Latinos as a U.S. Race	3
	The Novel in the Dissemination and Reconfiguration of Notions about Race	5
Ch. 1	Novel Concepts: The Role of the Novel in Developing Ideas of Nation and Race in the Americas	9
	Mikhail Bakhtin, Georg Lukacs, and the "New World" of the Novel	9
	Benedict Anderson and the Novel as a Tool of National Imagination	14
	Fredric Jameson and the Many Worlds in the Americas	16
	Novels and the Fictionalization of Racial Attitudes	21
Ch. 2	Enslaved Characters: Nineteenth-Century Abolitionist Novels and the Absence of Bi-racial Consciousness	31
	Differences between Bi-racial and Mulatto Characters	31
	The Myth of Racial Purity versus the Dreams of a Miscegenated Paradise	32
	The Limitations of Nineteenth-Century Racial Representations	36
	Uncle Tom's Cabin and Bi-racial Characters in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Latin American Literatures	38
	Sab as a Nineteenth-Century Cuban Romantic Tale about Race	42
	The Complicit Ignorance of Cecilia Valdes	44
	A Thin Line between Black and White in Martin Morua Delgado's Sofia and Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson	46
	Race without Romance in Antonio Zambrana's El negro Francisco	51
Ch. 3	Mulatto Fictions: Representations of Identity-Consciousness in U.S. and Latin American Bi-racial Characters	55
	Mulatto Characters as Racial and Cultural Nexus	55
	Passing the Tragic Mulatta in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature	58
	Gabriela and the Sexualized Mulatta in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature	63
	Pobre negro, The Violent Land, and the Limits of Mulatto Characters in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature	68
	Joe Christmas and the Unmerry Existence of Mulatto Characters in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature	72
	Go Down, Moses and the Mumbled Recognition of Racial Confluence in the United States	78
	The Bluest Eye and the Persistence of Anti-mulatto Fiction in the United States	80
Ch. 4	Identity Against the Grain: Latino Authors of African European Heritage and Their Encounters with the Racial Ideology of the United States	85
	Latino Authors and the "One Drop" Rule	85
	Piri Thomas, Julia Alvarez, and the Limitations of Choosing Sides in the U.S. Racial Divide	87
	Esmeralda Santiago and Negi's Persistent Puertoricanness in the Face of the "One Drop" Rule	101
Ch. 5	Choosing Your Own Face: Future Trends of Racial Discourses in the United States	107
	Latino Influence in Other Cultural Products	107
	The Latin American Racial Paradigm behind the "Wigga"	109
	The Rock, Tiger Woods, and a Universal Race	111
	Notes	113
	Bibliography	119
	Index	125