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almahu_9949481232302882
Format:
1 online resource :
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11 b/w illustrations
ISBN:
9781479812783
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9783110993899
Content:
Reveals the legacy of the train as a critical site of race in the United StatesDespite the seeming supremacy of car culture in the United States, the train has long been and continues to be a potent symbol of American exceptionalism, ingenuity, and vastness. For almost two centuries, the train has served as the literal and symbolic vehicle for American national identity, manifest destiny, and imperial ambitions. It's no surprise, then, that the train continues to endure in depictions across literature, film, ad music. The Racial Railroad highlights the surprisingly central role that the railroad has played-and continues to play-in the formation and perception of racial identity and difference in the United States. Julia H. Lee argues that the train is frequently used as the setting for stories of race because it operates across multiple registers and scales of experience and meaning, both as an invocation of and a depository for all manner of social, historical, and political narratives.Lee demonstrates how, through legacies of racialized labor and disenfranchisement-from the Chinese American construction of the Transcontinental Railroad and the depictions of Native Americans in landscape and advertising, to ??the underground railroad and Jim Crow segregation-the train becomes one of the exemplary spaces through which American cultural works explore questions of racial subjectivity, community, and conflict. By considering the train through various lenses, The Racial Railroad tracks how racial formations and conflicts are constituted in significant and contradictory ways by the spaces in which they occur.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction --
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1 Tracks across the Land --
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2 The Chinaman's Crime --
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3 Telling Stories --
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4 Remembrance and Reenactment at Promontory Summit --
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5 The Jim Crow Train in African American Literature --
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6 Riding the Blind --
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7 Speculative Trains --
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8 Fugitive Trains --
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Coda --
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Acknowledgments --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index --
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About the Author
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993899
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110994810
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EBOOK PACKAGE Sociology 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110994551
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EBOOK PACKAGE Sociology 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110994520
In:
New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110751628
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
DOI:
10.18574/nyu/9781479812783.001.0001
URL:
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479812783.001.0001
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479812783
URL:
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