Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Abbreviations ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 Neither Citizen nor Alien National Narratives, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Self-Definition 14
7. 2 "As From a Faithful Mirror": Pierre, Our Nig, and Literary Nationalism 106
8. 3 "The Strange Meaning of Being Black": The Souls of Black Folk and the Narrative of History 172
9. 4 A "Losing-Self Sense": The Making of Americans and the Anxiety of Identity 237
10. Coda: An American "We" 299
11. Notes 305
12. Selected Bibliography 353
13. Index 375