Bücher der Reihe Race and American Culture

This study argues that racial grief is not only the result of racism but also a foundation for racial identity. It proposes that racial identification is itself a melancholy act - a social category supported by loss and compensation, rejecting and retaining, denigrating and idealizing the minority.

Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American intellectuals need to examine their own assumptions about race, culture, and politics, and makes his case through the example of literature.

Drawing on recent research in cultural studies and social history, Eric Lott examines the role of the blackface minstrel show in the political struggles of the years leading up to the Civil War.