Narrative interruptions of panic : reverse acculturation in the early African American fiction of William Wells Brown and Harriet Wilson -- Miscegenated whiteness : Rebecca Harding Davis, the "civil-izing war," and "female racism" -- "Corporeal suspicion" : the missing crimes of neoabolitionist rape culture in Pauline Hopkins's detective histories -- Unacquiring Negrophobia : Younghill Kang and the cosmopolitan resistance to the white logic of naturalization -- Dis-integrating third spaces : the unrepresented in Abraham Cahan's and Mary Antin's narratives of Americanization -- White dissolution : homosexualization and racial masculinity in white life novels -- Queer Aztlan, mestizing "white" queer theory : Arturo Islas's The rain god
Denying its formative dialogues with minorities, the white race, Stephen P. Knadler contends, has been a fugitive race. While the "white question," like the "Negro question," and the "woman question" a century earlier, has garnered considerable critical attention among scholars looking to find new anti-race strategies, these investigations need to highlight not just the exclusion of people of color, but also examine minority writers' resistance to and disruption of this privileged racial category. "Highly original, wonderfully detailed, and thought provoking
