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... Voices of American Indian Assimilation and Resistance: Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Winnemucca, and Victoria Howard. By Siobhan Senier. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 2001. xvi, 256 pp. $29.95...

... Book Reviews 155 The Temple of Culture: Assimilation and Anti-Semitism in Literary Anglo-America. By Jonathan Freedman. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2000. vi, 264 pp. $45.00. Anglo-American literary culture can’t keep its mind off the idea of the Jew as artist-and-intellect, which has...

...Aviva F. Taubenfeld The Autobiography of Citizenship: Assimilation and Resistance in U.S. Education . By Cooper Tova . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers Univ. Press . 2015 . xii, 264 pp. Cloth , $90.00 ; paper, $31.95 ; e-book, $31.95 . Fashion and Fiction: Self-Transformation...

... Literature of human nature that also informs both Benito Cereno and Robert Johnson’s ‘‘Me and the Devil Blues Charles Scruggs, University of Arizona Assimilating Asians: Gender Strategies of Authorship in Asian America. By Patricia Chu. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2000. 241 pp. Cloth, $49.95...

... to determine deservingness of US citizenship. This trio of texts shows how school systems are mechanisms of coercive assimilation that reproduce a ranking regime wherein racial others are excluded or subordinated. Even as school environments can silence, they can also be safe havens for amplifying the human...

... constituted by economically, socially, and culturally mobile, not to mention aesthetically pleasing, bodies. Both Jewish and American, these bodies serve as touchpoints for their own desiring gazes, positing a model of assimilative empathy for “native” and immigrant alike in which “looks” refer to both an act...

...Drew Lopenzina Nineteenth-century Pequot minister William Apess has appeared to many readers over the years as a Native American figure who fully assimilated into the expectations of the dominant culture, his role as Christian minister placing an insuperable distance between him and the traditions...

..., in their attempts to position themselves as included subjects. The article examines the ways Bulosan revises Luce's arguments in order to study the implications of benevolent assimilation, the colonial policy of tutelage for Filipinos. Although the notion of a model minority discourse is conventionally understood...

... African Americans to feel more assimilated than American Indians and reminding them that the dominant culture considered even the unassimilated Indian to be racially superior to the black man. Finally, Johnston's photos of public schools attended by white children transform images of Indian objects...

... assimilation. The essay argues that an examination of how this genre portrays the present and imagines the future allows for an investigation into the current shape, possibilities, and limits of Latinidad as imagined by US Latin@ writers. Studying the chronicle’s genealogies, areas of thematic focus, modes...

...), this essay finds that Language poetry assimilated lessons from New Narrative that informed—and in some cases determined—its engagement with such issues as narrative structure, cultural politics, and sexual identity. More than an internecine quarrel among competing avant-gardes, these conversations ultimately...

...Barbara Hochman Abstract For marginalized readers in the United States, the public library has often been an icon of integration, assimilation, and self-making. At the New York Public Library (NYPL) of the 1920s, children’s librarians, mostly white and native born, assiduously drilled immigrant...

... novel rejects the genre’s foundational tenets of assimilation and stability in favor of social justice and revolution. By analyzing Monstress through bildungsroman ideology, fantasy world building, H. P. Lovecraft’s racial history, and post-1965 Asian American political realignments, the author argues...

... according to the reigning canons of scholarly importance. If early critics of the Jewish American literary field celebrated this emergence, its ethic of assimilation was starkly at odds with an increasingly influential multiculturalism, even as these critics relied on an implicit multicultural logic...

.... At the turn of the nineteenth century, while Brown was writing, the U.S. government worked vigorously to assimilate Iroquois com- munities, including Mohawks, by forcibly converting them into dis- Charles Brockden Brown’s Biloquial Nation 461 crete yeoman families on privately...

... for an identity 6815 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:1 / sheet 124 of 252 that Harland understood as having no purchase.1 ButasIwillshow, Harland’s reliance on plots of class and ethnic assimilation meant that his ‘‘real’’ identity as an embattled and invisible...

..., Korean haenyeo (women divers), and the Japanese American farmers of California. Conspicuously missing, though, is a longer sense of Asian American history, an absence that reinforces the assimilative trope of Asian Americans playing the foreigner over and over again. The doubled reading practice...

... on eth- nicity and assimilation. Against this newly official model, black nation- alism and the Black Aesthetic posed an alternative, separatist, racially essentialist model that imagined African American double conscious- ness as a problem to be solved not through unification (as DuBois had hoped...

... Seeing Source Codes as perhaps more modestly subversive, I would modify Stefans’s claims: in using a foregrounded assimilationism to resist assimilation, Wheeler’s work challenges the very notion of ex- haustion. Much of the volume’s interest lies in the self-awareness, ambivalence...

..., or other social category transcends processes of defi- ance or assimilation. Rather, it imagines the law as a dynamic, consensual, intellectual, humanistic organism—as an instrument of justice. Sarah E. Chinn...