Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-237) and index
Introduction : natal nationalism : the place of the child in American cultural studies -- The child and the racial politics of nation making in the slavery era -- Southern fictions and the "race" of nations along the Mexican border -- Consenting fictions, fictions of consent : the child and the nineteenth-century sentimental novel -- Transnational Twain -- Henry James, Pauline Hopkins, and psychologies of race -- Raceless states: W. E. B. Du Bois and Cuba
