This book examines how modern US writers used the changing geographies, regimens, and technologies of modern food to reimagine racial classification and to question its relationship to the mutable body. By challenging a cultural ideal of purity, this...
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This book examines how modern US writers used the changing geographies, regimens, and technologies of modern food to reimagine racial classification and to question its relationship to the mutable body. By challenging a cultural ideal of purity, this literature proposes that racial whiteness is perhaps the most artificial color of them all. Cover -- Artificial Color -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "A Purple Fluid, Carbon-Charged": Jean Toomer's Mutable Materials -- 2. Genius in the Raw: The Schuyler Family and the Modern Mulatta -- 3. Eating Like a Local: Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and the Stakes of Terroir -- 4. "A Beaker Full of the Warm South": The Fitzgeralds and Mediterranean Infusions -- 5. The Monstropolous Beast: Animacy and Industry in Zora Neale Hurston and Dorothy West -- Notes -- Index.
