The Literature of Immigration and Racial Formation: Becoming White, Becoming Other, Becoming American in the Late Progressive Era (Studies in American Popular History and Culture) by Linda Joyce Brown


The Literature of Immigration and Racial Formation: Becoming White, Becoming Other, Becoming American in the Late Progressive Era (Studies in American Popular History and Culture)
Title : The Literature of Immigration and Racial Formation: Becoming White, Becoming Other, Becoming American in the Late Progressive Era (Studies in American Popular History and Culture)
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ISBN : 0415949319
ISBN-10 : 9780415949316
Language : English
Format Type : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 156
Publication : First published June 24, 2004

This work examines early twentieth-century literature about women immigrants in order to reveal the differing ways that American racial categories and identities, particularly that of whiteness, were textually and socially constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century.


The Literature of Immigration and Racial Formation: Becoming White, Becoming Other, Becoming American in the Late Progressive Era (Studies in American Popular History and Culture) Reviews


  • Andrea

    Brown has a great writing style, so reading this was a big help for the dissertation.