Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. George Washington: Porcelain, Tea, and Revolution 26
6. Jefferson’s Legacies: Racial Intimacies and American Identity 44
7. Tocqueville and Beaumont, Brothers and Others 64
8. “The Sacred Right of Self-Preservation”: Juan Nepomuceno Cortina and the Struggle for Justice in Texas 81
9. “Shoot Mr. Lincoln”? 96
10. Sarah Winnemucca and the Rewriting of Nation 112
11. The Politics of the Possible: Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s Crusade for Justice 128
12. Meat vs. Rice (and Pasta): Samuel Gompers and the Republic of White Labor 145
13. Theodore Roosevelt and the Divided Character of American Nationalism 163
14. Margaret Sanger and the Racial Origins of the Birth Control Movement 196
15. W. E. B. Du Bois and the Race Concept 214
16. Displacing Filipinos, Dislocating America: Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart 231
17. Looking through Sidney Brustein’s Window: Lorraine Hansberry’s New Frontier, 1959–1965 247
18. James Baldwin’s “Discovery of What It Means to Be an American 263
19. Afterword: Racially Writing the Republic and Racially Righting the Republic 281
20. Bibliography 301
21. Contributors 321
22. Index 323