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From: JASTEELE@macc.wisc.edu "Jeffery A.Steele"
Subject: Constructions of race

I am finishing up the design of my course on race in 19th and early 20th-century literature. In a syllabus intended to contain white, American Indian, and black authors, I find that I have few white authors (Poe, Melville, Twain). I am wondering which texts, written between 1870 and 1920 by white authors, members of this list would use as good indicators of racial attitudes in white America. I am especially looking for short stories that could be included in a course reader.

Jeffrey Steele
Dept. of English, UW-Madison
jasteele@macc.wisc.edu

Bibliography:

  1. Birth of a Nation [video]. Eldersburg, MD: National Film and Video Center, 1983.

  2. Cable, George Washicgton. Old Creole Days. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1896.

  3. Cable, George Washington. The Grandissimes; a Story of Creole Life. New York: Sagamore Press, 1957.

  4. Cather, Willa. Death Comes for the Archbishop. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1945.

  5. Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller. A Diary from Dixie. Boston: Hoghton Mifflin Co., 1949.

  6. Chestnut, Charles Waddel. The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 1993.

  7. Child, Lydia Maria Francis. Hobomok and Other Writings on Indians. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1986.

  8. Chopin, Kate. The Complete Works of Kate Chopin. Baton Rouge: LA State UP, 1970.

  9. Crane, Stephen. Prose and Poetry. New York: Viking Press, 1984.

  10. Davis, Rebecca Harding. Silhouettes of American Life. New York: Garrett Press. 1968.

  11. Dixon, Thomas. The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden. New York: A. Wessels, 1906.

  12. Dixon, Thomas. The Clansman. Lexington, KY: UP of Kentucky, 1970.

  13. Dreiser, Theodore. The Best Short Stories of Theodore Dreiser. Chicago: Elephant Paperbacks, 1989.

  14. Emanuel, James A. Dark Symphony: Negro Literature in America. New York: Free Press, 1968.

  15. Faulkner, William. Intruder in the Dust. New York: Random House, 1948.

  16. Faulkner, William. Light in August. New York: Modern Library, 1950.

  17. Foner, Philip S. Racism, Dissent, and Asian American fro 1850 to the Present: A Documentary History. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1993.

  18. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wallpaper. New York: THe Feminist Press, 1973.

  19. Gone With the Wind [video]. New York: MGM/UA Home Video, 1990.

  20. Gossett, Thomas F. Race: The History of an Idea in America. Dallas: Southern Methodist Press, 1963.

  21. Harris, Joel Chandler. Free Joe, and Other Georgian Sketches. Ridgewood, N.J.: Gregg Press, 1967.

  22. Harris, Joel Chandler. The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1955.

  23. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. New York: Harper and Row, 1965.

  24. Heyward, DuBois. Porgy. New York: Grosset & Dunlop, 1925.

  25. Howells, William Dean. The Great Modern American Stories. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920.

  26. Hurst, Fannie. Imitation of Life. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1933.

  27. Jackson, Helen Hunt. Ramona. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1912.

  28. King, Grace Elizabeth. Tales of a Time and a Place. New York: Garrett Press, 1969.

  29. Lewis, Sinclair. Kingsblood Royal. New York: Random House, 1947.

  30. Melville, Herman. A Benito Cereno Handbook. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Pub. Co., 1965.

  31. Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1992.

  32. Nielson, Aldon Lynn. Reading Race: White American Poets and the Racial Discourse in the Twentieth Century. Athens, GA: U of Georgia Press, 1988.

  33. O'Connor, Flannery. Collected Works. New York: Library of America, 1988.

  34. O'Neill, Eugene. Plays: The Emporer Jones; Gold; "The First Man"; The Dreamy Kid. New York: H. Liveright, 1925.

  35. Page, Thomas Nelson. In Ole Virginia. New York: C. Scribner's Sons. 1865.

  36. Peterkin, Julia Mood. Scarlet Sister Mary. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1928.

  37. Roediger, David R. Towards the Abolition of Whiteness: Essays on Race, Politics, and Working Class History. New York: Verso, 1994.

  38. Rolvaag, O. E. Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1927.

  39. Santiago, Danny. Famous All Over Town. New York: New American Library, 1983.

  40. Sedgwick, Catherine Maria. Hope Leslie, or, Early Times in Massachusetts. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1987.

  41. Smedes, Susan Dabney. A Southern Planter. New York: J. Pott & Co., 1890.

  42. Smith, Lillian Eugenia. Strange Fruit. Athens, GA: U of Georgia Press, 1985.

  43. Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott. The Amber Gods, and Other Stories. New Bruswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1989.

  44. Stein, Gertrude. Three Lives. New York: Vintage Books, 1936.

  45. Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin, or, Life Among the Lowly. New York: Viking Press, 1982.

  46. Stuart, Ruth McEnery. A Golden Wedding and Other Tales. New York: Garrett Press, 1969.

  47. Styron, Williams. The Confessions of Nat Turner. New York: Random House, 1967.

  48. Tourgee, Albion Winegar. An Appeal to Caesar. New York: Fords, Howard & Hulbert, 1884.

  49. Twain, Mark. Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins. New York: Norton, 1980.

  50. Van Vechten, Carl. Nigger Heaven. Ney York: A. A. Knopf, 1926.

  51. Wharton, Edith. The House of Mirth. New York: The New American Library, 1980.

  52. Yerby, Frank. The Foxes of Harrow. New York: Dial Press, 1946.


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